[Foundation-l] Usability wiki

Sat Jan 29 16:04:56 UTC 2011

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<gpaumier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

I want to really underline this point. If it's MediaWiki related, it
belongs on mediawiki.org. Moving things elsewhere fragments
discussion and planning.

I'm also lazy and don't want to look at other wikis ;-)

-Chad