[Foundation-l] Usability wiki

[Stephanie Daugherty]

I think it would be more productive to import the usability content into
Meta, close down the usability wiki if it's served it's intended purpose,
and continue the discussion at meta.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:35 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 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
>
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