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Bug 39122 - Re-evaluate pages system in Wikimedia Report Card
Re-evaluate pages system in Wikimedia Report Card
Status: NEW
Product: Analytics
Classification: Unclassified
Visualization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low normal
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-08-08 04:04 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2012-12-21 19:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2012-08-08 04:04:24 UTC
It looks like the Wikimedia Report Card has a rudimentary pages feature. For example:

* http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/about
* http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/contact
* http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/project

All of which read "hello!" currently.

I'm not sure this is the best approach. Using a wiki comes with user authentication, page history and control, an established editing syntax, and a whole lot of other features. Using a homegrown pages solution duplicates a lot or all of this effort for little benefit, as far as I can see. I don't know too much about this software package ("Limn"), but I think this part of the software needs reconsideration.

I suppose one of the big questions is whether this software (Limn) is intended to be used outside of this particular project (Wikimedia Report Card). If not, I think it definitely makes sense to use Meta-Wiki or mediawiki.org or some other wiki for these types of pages (similar to how <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics> is already linked to/integrated into the footer).

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