In fact most of the old test wikis are going to be replaced by wmflabs wikis. I don't know which rules you want to set. These are test wikis and people are supposed to do tests there. I see no need for any rules.
All test wikis we have which can be accessed are of course useable by regular users, non developers. The deployment site is even recommended to be used by wikimedia users who are developing gadgets and such so that they can test they are going to work in future on production. The deployment site is something like a mirror of production running software we are going to use there in future, while test.wikipedia.org is production like setup which isn't running any new software, but is only supposed to be used as last place to test changes, configuration and sw updates before it's pushed to other sites (in fact it's mostly running same software as other sites), there is no unstable software on test.wikipedia for security reasons.
The deployment site is purposefully separated from production so that it's safe to run unstable and insecure software there (any unreviewed revision might be insecure).
The labs.wikimedia.org sites are likely going to be closed and replaced by wmflabs projects in future just as many of them already was. (Any testing project is not supposed to be hosted on production cluster, excepting test.wikimedia which isn't really testing software but running production stable version)
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
- labs.wikimedia are the old old old labs/test projects, These are no
longer (and any that still wanted -> wmflabs)
- prototype.wikimedia are oldish test setups, and most should be moved
to wmflabs if still wanted *.wmflabs.org are instances hosted on our Labs setup[1] which is our virtuazlization cluster/project that Ryan setup, Which houses more than just test wikis (Think Toolserver, but yes, with test wikis as well).
[1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs
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