On 03/04/13 14:48, Yury Katkov wrote:
Hi everyone!
I think that there are two categories of developers now:
- Wikimedia developers deal with Wikimedia tasks of running Wikipedia and
all other projects 2) Independent developers which use MediaWiki for their needs. I think that not much of us even know that wikitech website exist. :)
IMO stuff related to inner projects of Wikimedia foundation should be located on wikitech. Manuals that are related to MediaWiki as a software and its extensions should live on MediaWiki.org. No Wikimedia-specific materials here.
Yury Katkov, WikiVote
I disagree - many of the same resources are useful to either group, and there is also overlap even between the groups - developers focussing on Wikimedia stuff are more likely to create their own wikis due to their familiarity with the stuff, for instance, and they shouldn't need to go outside their comfort zone to get the relevant info on that specifically, and we should if anything be encouraging independent developers to get involved in the movement as well, since if they're using the software chances are they have at least some shared goals with Wikimedia, so we really should not be pushing them away.
And since a lot of the stuff is applicable to either group, if the groups were separated, what then? What would determine which wiki something would go on, or would it just be duplicated across both? And if the latter, who is going to update the other when information is updated on one? In such cases one usually seems to just wind up stagnating, and it's not a good model.