On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Does anyone have an issue broadening the topic base that we have on our tech hub?
I don't. MediaWiki.org has evolved to serve multiple functions:
- the primary hub for the development of MediaWiki, its APIs, extensions, etc.; - the primary hub for WMF engineering projects, even some which are separate but related (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Kraken ) - the primary hub for hackathons and other events, even when they only partially relate to MediaWiki.
I suspect that it will also take on additional functions in the future:
- a central repository for gadgets; - (maybe) a central repository for Lua code and other Scribunto code.
I don't view this intermingling of purposes as inherently problematic. That's actually a much narrower scope than Meta, which tends to be defined as "everything else". Why not interpret MediaWiki.org to mean "Information about MediaWiki and other technical coordination relevant to Wikimedia"? Yes, MediaWiki serves third parties as well -- but much of the non-MediaWiki stuff we're talking about here is potentially interesting to those third parties as well.
Erik