User:Krinkle/Communication

Topics
Most threads can be categorized into one of the following topics.
 * MediaWiki core
 * Announcing releases of MediaWiki (stable, beta & updates)
 * New features and major/breaking changes
 * PHP interface
 * JavaScript interface
 * API interface
 * GUI interface
 * Discussion & support (for webmasters maintaining their own MediaWiki install(s))
 * Bugs
 * Commits by developers


 * Wikimedia
 * Deployments (announcing ahead of time and when after they happened)
 * Other changes to the cluster (announcing ahead of time and when after they happened)
 * For example: HTTPS servers online, configuration changes (wgServer and others becoming protocol-relative), changes to symlinks (i.e. skins-1.5 now linking to MediaWiki 1.18)
 * Discussion about the above
 * Changes in staff
 * Changes by ops

Audiences

 * MediaWiki core developers
 * MediaWiki extension developers
 * Webmasters maintaining one or more MediaWiki-powered websites
 * Wikimedia users active in wiki-administration (bureaucrats, stewards, sysops etc.)
 * Wikimedia users active in writing gadgets, user scripts and site scripts
 * Wikimedia users active in editing articles
 * Wikimedia users primary reading articles

Use cases

 * Native HTTPS online
 * Configuration changes (wgServer etc.) for protocol-relative url that likely need Gadgets-authors to update their scripts
 * Major and/or breaking change in any of API interface, PHP interface, JavaScript interface or GUI
 * Change in API module parameters or requirements (like needing a token or requiring POST)
 * Change in JavaScript interface (deprecation/removal of method or module)
 * Change in PHP interface (hooks, classes, global functions/variables)
 * Change in GUI interface (i.e. changing default skin)

Mapping
This section is where the above is mapped to a communication point.

Note that not all topics and audiences should be mapped to a mailing lists per se. There are other places such as [//blog.wikimedia.org blog.wikimedia.org] and it's categories,, Twitter etc.


 * Wikimedia
 * Changes in staff: wikitech-l, [//twitter.com/wikimediaatwork @wikimediaatwork], [//blog.wikimedia.org/tag/hire/ wmblog/tag/hire]
 * Changes by ops: Server admin log, #wikimedia-tech