[teampractices] Why are WMF Department/team pages on mediawiki.org?

Thu May 21 23:05:23 UTC 2015

> Naively, it seems like our home page should be on wikimediafoundation.org
rather than mediawiki.org.

+1

> For engineering departments, it is less clear, but since the entire
"department" structure is an artifact of the WMF, and not of the mediawiki
software, my gut reaction would be the same.

+1

> Technical pages (such as CirrusSearch) make sense to be on mediawiki.org.

+1

> Are there historical or cultural reasons to keep the team pages on
mediawiki.org?

/me shrugs

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Alex Monk <amonk at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Thank you for this email, Kevin. This is something that's bugged me for
> several years as a mediawiki.org administrator - are these pages actually
> within the site scope
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About#What_MediaWiki.org_is>? (I
> don't think I've ever deleted a page for it, but they don't exactly make
> sense as mediawiki.org pages)
> Some of those really Wikimedia-specific technical pages should  probably
> be on wikitech.wikimedia.org, and some of the more WMF-organisation (i.e.
> teams) pages on wikimediafoundation.org, in my opinion.
>
> On 21 May 2015 at 23:14, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Naively, it seems like our home page should be on wikimediafoundation.org
>> rather than mediawiki.org.
>>
>> For engineering departments, it is less clear, but since the entire
>> "department" structure is an artifact of the WMF, and not of the mediawiki
>> software, my gut reaction would be the same.
>>
>> Technical pages (such as CirrusSearch) make sense to be on mediawiki.org.
>>
>>
>> Are there historical or cultural reasons to keep the team pages on
>> mediawiki.org?
>>
>>
>> Kevin Smith
>> Agile Coach
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>>
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