2010/8/6 Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com
When it has passed review, I suppose we could set up a few wikis at prototype.wikimedia.org and test it there. It was originally set up for the usability initiative but it seems to be used for increasingly random testing purposes now, and we have no other proper place for this.
Just curious: There's also http://test.wikipedia.org/ . What's the difference between it and prototype?
I know that prototype has different language versions and i'm not sure about test in this regard. And except that?
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When it has passed review, I suppose we could set up a few wikis at prototype.wikimedia.org and test it there. It was originally set up for the usability initiative but it seems to be used for increasingly random testing purposes now, and we have no other proper place for this.
Just curious: There's also http://test.wikipedia.org/ . What's the difference between it and prototype?
I know that prototype has different language versions and i'm not sure about test in this regard. And except that?
Test is a part of the cluster. Prototype is not. We have more flexibility on what we can put on prototype versus test.
V/r,
Ryan Lane
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
Test is a part of the cluster. Prototype is not. We have more flexibility on what we can put on prototype versus test.
Prototype is also used exclusively by the Usability Team, 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.
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)
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