Thread:Project:Current issues/Adding a dev namespace for "Data and developer hub" articles/reply (9)

Well, in theory there should be no maintenance required. It is effectively a read-only window into a section of mediawiki.org, and therefore once set-up it should just tick along.

I would imagine that it runs either directly off the live MediaWiki.org database or a live-replicated slave, or hooks in via the API (which would be quite apt). Either way, it is effectively a read-only mirror of a portion of mediawiki.org, skinned to be user-friendly to a subset of users who want a read-only documentation site. There will be links to edit or discuss the content (which can be as prominent, or not, as you feel is appropriate) but they link to the MediaWiki site with the standard skin.

I have no idea how much work this is. In theory, it should be fairly trivial (the hard work is in implementing the skin, which seems to be broadly done), but I don't know enough about WMF infrastructure to know how hard it is in practice.