As James said here, and on the meta page, we should stick by the wisdom of,
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
One benefit for each year's Wikimania team is that it has a brand new
MediaWiki install, which allows them to have a clean slate technically and
design-wise from previous years. It also keeps administration cleaner, and
maintains compatibility as we go forward. I've been involved with every
Wikimania since the first one, and it would be painful to have to maintain
the same MediaWiki instance across a decade's worth of Wikimanias.
I do appreciate opening the discussion to thinking about how to make this
cleaner. But unless there is a compelling need, you usually stick with what
got us here.
-Andrew
-Andrew Lih
Associate professor of journalism, American University
Email: andrew(a)andrewlih.com
WEB:
http://www.andrewlih.com
BOOK: The Wikipedia Revolution:
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PROJECT: Wiki Makes Video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:12 AM, James Alexander <jamesofur(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Josh Lim
<jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com>wrote;wrote:
Is it possible to unify them into a single
domain, but keep them as
separate wikis? For example, I would think that
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/2012/page is still better than sub-pages
on a single wiki (where it can get messy) or separate wikis on a separate
wikimania.org domain (where we just move the problem elsewhere).
Josh
I can see some of the desire for the same wiki (to have everything
accessible in one place etc) though not completely sold personally. I worry
too much old on the same wiki ends up getting very confusing and cluttered,
we have this problem in many other places.
I don't completely understand how
http://wikimania.wikimedia.org/2012/page would
be better then, say
https://2012.wikimania.org/wiki/page though? I may be
missing something so I apologize if I am. I feel like the break from our
normal naming structure could get very confusing (I do think that, yes,
it's certainly possible though).
James
James Alexander
jamesofur(a)gmail.com
jalexander(a)wikimedia.org
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