Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:43 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)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