In the past we used to have a Wikimedia tech blog, and for reasons that I'm not familiar with, it was merged in to the main Wikimedia blog. Are there any lessons from that older blog that are relevant to make sure we don't end up in the same situation again?

The MW stakeholders are also planning a MediaWiki blog. This will be launched in the next few months. The scope of the content would be broader, but there would also be many overlaps in content. Could we make a call to explore whether there are synergies. It makes little sense to duplicate infrastructures. Obviously several people have the same idea. Who would be the contact person here?

@RHeigl feel free to reach out to me. (srodlund@wikimedia.org)

We can discuss where the projects might overlap.

Hi @srodlund! I took another look.
As far as I understand it, is this going to be a tech blog primarily about developments for the Wikimedia communites? Then there is actually not too much overlap. We (the MWStakeholders) would like to start a MediaWiki blog that works as a group blog, has sysadmins, developers and maintainers as a target group, to make developments and actors inside and outside (!) WMF visible and to promote MediaWiki as software and bring people and projects together. There would also be room for Semantic MediaWiki, Meza, skin and extension developers and many others who, in my opinion, won't find room in a Wikimedia Tech Blog.
The overlap would be that we would also like to promote developments of Wikimedia. But these topics would then tend to end up in your project. That's a pity, but also okay. Of course we would have loved to have included this and created a lot of space for it. But we can refer to interesting posts.
We also didn't know that Wikimedia itself is starting a new blog here. Then we could have contacted us early and agreed on something. At the moment everything seems already to be fixed on the WMF side and we have to adjust our content concept a bit. But of course our project will always open for all stakeholders in the big MediaWiki universe. I think anything that helps to make the work of developers visible and create different points of contact is essential for the future of MediaWiki. You start first and we follow. :-) We are only terribly behind schedule.

@RHeigl It is a big universe, and I'm confident between the two blogs there will be plenty of content--and likely different takes on it.

I agree any effort to increase the visibility of the technical work being done by our community is so important. Let's stay connected -- so that we're aware of our efforts going forward. We'll be updating here with more information as we progress toward the blog's launch and will be announcing more widely as we get closer.

@RHeigl Now that the Wikimedia Tech blog has been launched I was hoping to loop back around and talk with you a bit more about intersections with the MediaWiki blog. I'd like to hear more about your progress and talk about how we can support one another's efforts. Is this (Phab) a good forum? Or would it make more sense to try and synch up -- either with a meeting or on IRC?