Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
(I don't completely understand why Wikimedia needs two blogs, but that's a matter for a different day.)
It probably doesn't hurt to have a place for us to nerd out and not have to worry about writing for a general audience. It seems that occasionally having some sort of "best of the techblog"-type summary posting on the main blog would be a good thing to do, but that means someone would have to decide what "best" is, and then write about it, so it's probably not something that will happen soon.
In order to avoid thread drift, I've replied to this here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=2139159 I hope you'll join the conversation there. It would probably also be prudent to poke Jay about this as well.
There's been no activity on that page since September 23 (a few hours after this thread was started). It's nearly October 1. To me, that indicates a problem.
Funny story there. Most of us EPMs here have been talking daily about wanting to make sure we have some prose in place before our drafting session tomorrow, the same way people talk about losing weight or cleaning out their garage. That's the bad news. The good news is that we have scheduled a drafting session tomorrow that we'll be hammering out a draft.
When writing on a wiki, you would (or should, I guess) always link acronyms and initialisms. In a mailing list post, this isn't possible, so it's really best to write out the full word. I never remember what "EPM" stands for.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EPM or http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EPM or http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/EPM
... ought to be a redirect to a description of what an EPM is, who fills these roles, etc.
Wikimedia has been having weekly (or fortnightly) status meetings about most of the items you listed on MediaWiki.org, but the notes are being held on Wikimedia's installation of EtherPad. Either document this EtherPad installation (I'm not even sure if the URL is supposed to be public, so I'll omit it here) or stop using it and post all of the notes directly on MediaWiki.org. These notes in EtherPad are (by far) the most up-to-date and helpful pages for tracking the status of projects that I've seen, but I doubt more than a dozen people outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff have any idea they exist. Though, perhaps a bit ironically, I haven't seen (m)any ops-related notes on EtherPad, as far as I remember, so that still might be an area in which only one or two people can give an accurate update.
I think our dream tool would be EtherPad realtime capabilities built into MediaWiki.
I have a lot of dreams as well. I think it makes a lot more sense to work within the current reality, though. :-) I think some of the EtherPad notes were transferred to MediaWiki.org today. This is definitely a step in the right direction. If there's a way to ensure that this happens regularly, that would be awesome.
MZMcBride