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 <gpaum...@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, > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation > Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Faith is about what you really truly believe in, not about what you are taught to believe. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
