[Foundation-l] Usability wiki

[K. Peachey]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> The main page of the Usability wiki ( http://usability.wikimedia.org ) says
> that it's discontinued and the whole wiki appears to be locked for editing.
> I don't remember this being discussed, although i may have missed it.

That was decided by the usability team, whom were the main users of
that wiki, with plans to import the usable information (such as some
of the extension documentation onto Mediawiki wiki).

> ...snip...
> I suggest unlocking the Usability wiki and re-opening it as a community hub
> for ideas about usability. It should be a completely unlocked wiki, with
> anonymous users allowed to edit etc.; if spam becomes a problem, editing can
> be allowed for registered users only.

I must disagree with that, fragmenting discussions all over the place
just makes things worse, It would be much better to keep these
discussions centralized on somewhere like Meta or Mediawiki wiki (or
possibly Strategy as well) instead of scattering them onto obscure
wikis where they don't have as much viewage.

-Peachey