<tl;dr>: Make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by end of August. See and comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010
Hi everyone,
In January 2018, an experimental instance of the Q&A platform "Discourse" was set up for developer support at https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org . See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180854 .
Since its launch, the usage of this instance has declined: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010#6270883 On average, there are two users who are engaged daily.
Other support venues which exist in parallel are much more active, such as IRC, mailing lists, [[mw:Project:Support_desk]], [[meta:Tech]], local technical village pumps, newsletters, Zulip for outreach programs, or other third-party sites such as mwusers.org, StackExchange.com, or Reddit.
Discontinuing the least frequented venue (which unfortunately is Discourse though it seems to be a great communication platform) would keep us from further fragmenting our conversations and efforts.
Planning, implementing, establishing and running a centralized Wikimedia developer support venue on production infrastructure (puppetization, data backups, uptime, etc) would require significant technical and "social" capacity. If Discourse was to be further evaluated, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155678 and its subtasks list part of the remaining needed work.
I propose to make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by the end of August 2020.
Please comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 if you have thoughts to share instead of replying to this message. Because keeping conversations in one place. ;)
Thanks a lot! andre
Hey I m new to the project. Is there something for me to do? I know python,CPP html CSS
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020, 11:29 am Andre Klapper, aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
<tl;dr>: Make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by end of August. See and comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010
Hi everyone,
In January 2018, an experimental instance of the Q&A platform "Discourse" was set up for developer support at https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org . See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180854 .
Since its launch, the usage of this instance has declined: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010#6270883 On average, there are two users who are engaged daily.
Other support venues which exist in parallel are much more active, such as IRC, mailing lists, [[mw:Project:Support_desk]], [[meta:Tech]], local technical village pumps, newsletters, Zulip for outreach programs, or other third-party sites such as mwusers.org, StackExchange.com, or Reddit.
Discontinuing the least frequented venue (which unfortunately is Discourse though it seems to be a great communication platform) would keep us from further fragmenting our conversations and efforts.
Planning, implementing, establishing and running a centralized Wikimedia developer support venue on production infrastructure (puppetization, data backups, uptime, etc) would require significant technical and "social" capacity. If Discourse was to be further evaluated, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155678 and its subtasks list part of the remaining needed work.
I propose to make discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org read-only by the end of August 2020.
Please comment on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247010 if you have thoughts to share instead of replying to this message. Because keeping conversations in one place. ;)
Thanks a lot! andre
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Welcome Rahul.
On Mon, 2020-07-27 at 12:24 +0530, Rahul Pawar wrote:
Hey I m new to the project. Is there something for me to do? I know python,CPP html CSS
Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers
Cheers, andre
PS: For future reference, please start a new thread for new questions, instead of replying to unrelated threads. See the subject line. Thanks.
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