Thread:Talk:Technical communications/Dev wiki consolidation/Why reuse wikitech.wikimedia.org/reply

We want less wikis, no more...

Wikitech has a user login integrated with labs, Gerrit and maybe Bugzilla someday. For several reasons it is not the universal login shared across the Wikimedia family. Also for several reasons doesn't have the same MediaWiki version that is deployed to Wikimedia servers.

Having dev.mediawiki.org might be nicer (for some?) in the surface but still would require different login, different wiki. That would confuse people a lot more than the solution proposed.

Today we are asking contributors to


 * Join wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 * File bugs at bugzilla.wikimedia.org
 * Send patches to gerrit.wikimedia.org
 * ... after getting developer access at wikitech.wikimedia.org

This situation is perceived as normal today, and I believe the proposed solution will be perceived as normal as well, as soon as we get over the initial reaction.