Hi, about Wikitech / mediawiki.org check
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications/Dev_wiki_consolidatio...
On 04/03/2013 12:30 AM, Ori Livneh wrote:
That seems wrong. Of the two, MediaWiki.org is clearly the more successful wiki.
Sure, but following this argument we could just have dev.wikipedia.org, right?
The point is that we need a good ground to build an infrastructure for technical contributors, and Wikitech provides this ground. It is not such a radical step, actually. Today we are asking contributors to
* Join wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org * File bugs at bugzilla.wikimedia.org * Send patches to gerrit.wikimedia.org * ... after getting developer access at wikitech.wikimedia.org
Moving / building there the resources related to contributors makes sense.
I think the simplest way to draw the line between Wikitech and mediawiki.org is to do it between users and contributors. The definition of "user" includes
* Editors of a generic MediaWiki. * Sysadmins installing MediaWiki. * Developers using the MediaWiki API.
I believe this causes no harm to mediawiki.org, cleaning it from Wikimedia centric content and allowing it a lot more freedom and focus about using MediaWiki and related technologies available to anybody.
mediawiki.org keeps being the place to download software, learn and get support. None of these activities requires to put your feet in any Wikitech* or Wikimedia* domain.