On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I heard that
there was a plan to merge these wikis to one central wiki
for technical documentation for various projects on wikimedia, what is
the current status of that? Are we going to merge it to labsconsole,
or to wikitech? There are some services atm running on labs and
documentation is all around, it would be really nice to have a one
place for this all. Put all the documentations for software from meta,
mediawiki, english wikipedia and labsconsole and wikitech to some
central "tech" wiki.
Yes. There's a plan to do so. We'd merge wikitech into labsconsole,
but we'll likely rename labsconsole to wikitech (and of course add a
redirect, so that old links continue to work). We'll also have a
wikitech-static mirror, which similar to wikitech now, will be offsite
and can be used for reference if the cluster is down.
We need to identify which documentation should and should not be
migrated over when it occurs, as there is a lot of documentation that
is old/inaccurate and should be deleted. We'd love to have some
community support for this, if anyone wants to help out.
If we enabled wikitech as an import source for labsconsole, this process
could get underway. I'd suggest making some new category on wikitech
"Stuff to be moved to Labsconsole" that pages can be put in once they've
been vetted.
-Chad