[Foundation-l] Usability wiki

[Ziko van Dijk]

Indeed, in 2008/2009 there was a little wave of new wikis by Wikimedia
Foundation. It seemed to me as if it was a prestige thing for the new
WMF collaborators to get a wiki of their own. :-) We have Meta Wiki
and similar general wikis already.
A similar tendency we saw in some of the larger chapters.
The last new content project of WMF was Wikiversity in 2006. I hope
there will come something new in 2011...
Kind regards
Ziko


2011/1/29 Stephanie Daugherty <sdaugherty at gmail.com>:
> I would hope that in the future, the decision to make a separate wiki for
> any "subproject" is not taken as lightly, given the concerns about
> fragmenting discussions - it's much easier to track these things when they
> are all in one place. :)
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Guillaume Paumier
> <gpaumier at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 21:35 +1000, K. Peachey a écrit :
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Yes, that was exactly the rationale behind the closing of the usability
>> wiki. I can try to elaborate a bit, since concerns were raised.
>>
>> The usability wiki was historically created as a work space for the
>> Wikipedia usability initiative. The end of both usability grants
>> provided an opportunity to revisit the decision to have a whole separate
>> wiki.
>>
>> Of course the Wikimedia Foundation is continuing to work on usability,
>> and I don't think anyone would argue that "all usability problems are
>> solved" :) Far from it. But usability is now an integral part of all
>> WMF-supported engineering work and features.
>>
>> As such, it makes sense to use mediawiki.org as the main workspace for
>> Wikimedia developers, rather than to have a separate wiki. It might also
>> help paid developers "mix" more with volunteers developers.
>>
>> In a nutshell, the usability wiki is being replaced by the strategy wiki
>> (for strategic product discussions, where Amir's and others' "dozen of
>> ideas" will be most welcome) and mediawiki.org (for specific project
>> management and implementation).
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
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>> Guillaume Paumier
>> Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation
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