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In discussion about software and system design, especially when deciding on trade-offs and priorities, it is often useful to have a shared catalog of guiding principles to refer to. Lack of such a shared set of principles may lead to divergence of development within an organization, as well as friction in discussion and planning processes. To address this, TechCom proposes to establish a set of guiding principles for software and system architecture. A draft can be found on the following wiki page: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles/Draft_9-2018>. An earlier version of this had been discussed at the Barcelona Hackathon in 2018, see {T194911}.

In discussion about software and system design, especially when deciding on trade-offs and priorities, it is often useful to have a shared catalog of guiding principles to refer to. Lack of such a shared set of principles may lead to divergence of development within an organization, as well as friction in discussion and planning processes. To address this, TechCom proposes to establish a set of guiding principles for software and system architecture. A draft can be found on the following wiki page: **<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles>** An earlier version of this had been discussed at the Barcelona Hackathon in 2018, see {T194911}.

In discussion about software and system design, especially when deciding on trade-offs and priorities, it is often useful to have a shared catalog of guiding principles to refer to. Lack of such a shared set of principles may lead to divergence of development within an organization, as well as friction in discussion and planning processes. To address this, TechCom proposes to establish a set of guiding principles for software and system architecture. A draft can be found on the following wiki page: **<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Committee/MediaWiki_Platform_Architecture_Principles/Draft_9-2018>. >** An earlier version of this had been discussed at the Barcelona Hackathon in 2018, see {T194911}.