In fact most of the old test wikis are going to be replaced by wmflabs
wikis. I don't know which rules you want to set. These are test wikis
and people are supposed to do tests there. I see no need for any
rules.
All test wikis we have which can be accessed are of course useable by
regular users, non developers. The deployment site is even recommended
to be used by wikimedia users who are developing gadgets and such so
that they can test they are going to work in future on production. The
deployment site is something like a mirror of production running
software we are going to use there in future, while
test.wikipedia.org
is production like setup which isn't running any new software, but is
only supposed to be used as last place to test changes, configuration
and sw updates before it's pushed to other sites (in fact it's mostly
running same software as other sites), there is no unstable software
on test.wikipedia for security reasons.
The deployment site is purposefully separated from production so that
it's safe to run unstable and insecure software there (any unreviewed
revision might be insecure).
The
labs.wikimedia.org sites are likely going to be closed and
replaced by wmflabs projects in future just as many of them already
was. (Any testing project is not supposed to be hosted on production
cluster, excepting test.wikimedia which isn't really testing software
but running production stable version)
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
* labs.wikimedia are the old old old labs/test
projects, These are no
longer (and any that still wanted -> wmflabs)
* prototype.wikimedia are oldish test setups, and most should be moved
to wmflabs if still wanted
*.wmflabs.org are instances hosted on our Labs setup[1] which is our
virtuazlization cluster/project that Ryan setup, Which houses more
than just test wikis (Think Toolserver, but yes, with test wikis as
well).
[1].
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs
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