2010/8/6 Casey Brown lists@caseybrown.org:
Prototype is also used exclusively by the Usability Team
This is no longer strictly true. I have been creating prototype wikis for the flaggedrevs folks and WMDE, and I expect more such random wikis to follow.
, while testwiki is the normal "Developer/Sysadmin Test Wikipedia". Before the Wikimedia sysadmins do a scap/major code rollout, they first roll-out the code changes to testwiki to verify everything works in the regular Wikimedia environment.
This is true, and this, not usability team exclusivity, is the important difference here. testwiki is really only for things that we deem ready to go live and want to check one more time before we accidentally let a typo wreck stuff, so code that goes there has to be pretty solid already. prototype is a completely separate machine that we can play around with to our heart's content, so mostly we can just throw stuff on there and see what happens.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)