Project talk:MediaWiki Farmers user group

Overlap
Is there an overlap between this and Groups/Proposals/MediaWiki Cooperation? --Nemo 11:56, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * A little bit yes. This group is more aimed at actually developing things, and specifically targeted towards wiki farms. Legoktm (talk) 01:03, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * This issue has also come up at Talk:Groups/Proposals/MediaWiki Cooperation. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 01:51, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Application
Once the group is ready for AffCom to consider official recognition, please fill out an application on Meta. Please note that you are encouraged to proceed with your planning and activities during this process. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 01:51, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I've started an application at Wikimedia user groups/Applications/MediaWiki Farmers user group. Some of the questions are a bit odd though, so I'm not sure how "correct" my answers are... Legoktm (talk) 08:41, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations on user group approval
Congratulations on the approval of the MediaWiki Farmers User Group by the Affiliations Committee! Please contact us if you have any questions about next steps. You should be contacted by WMF Legal to sign the paperwork soon. Again, congratulations and best wishes! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 23:35, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Group focus
The current intro reads "Our group will benefit MediaWiki farms by improving documentation of the Wikimedia setup, in order for other developers to replicate it locally, lowering the barrier for new developers to hack on MediaWiki and Wikimedia code." -- is it definitively chosen already that we are promoting the WMF farm setup as the way to go for other farms? In my opinion, this seems incredibly premature as the WMF setup may not be the best method to promote. We should ideally evaluate other setups to see which ones best meet the needs of wiki farms (and probably also decide on what said "needs" are) before settling on one setup to begin promoting. In the interim, we should likely replace that line with a statement of the group's end goals/deliverables (e.g. a standardized setup and whatever else we as a group want to immediately focus on). -- Skiz zerz  04:19, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Knowledge structures on Wiki Farms
Greetings! I have a set of farms, and often run into issues when talking about just the approach for incoming folk in how to think about wikis, where to put things, how to find other pages. While there is plenty of technical documentation, I have yet to come across something which says "here's how to think about categories" or "be sure each page links to something findable" etc. Are there already guides like this, or shall I create one and link to it from this user group?