I've been doing a lot of thinking about products that have been built in
the past years, discussions that we are having about current developments
and about future projects.
And I noticed that I really needed to put some of that down somewhere
public. So I have created the following:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Analysis
A place to analyse things we have right now, both in software, content and
process. To figure out why they are how they are, what they mean, break
them down into parts. Knowing things like this will help us build better
products.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Concepts
A place where I want to log some product ideas that I have been considering
for a while.
These places are meant to inspire discussion, strategy, design, as well as
document.
Additionally, I would like to point out that Risker has been writing down a
checklist for products from her perspective, which I think is a great idea
and welcome more people to do. Hopefully, such checklists can be
consolidated into a more 'formalized' standard (a bit like we also have
code conventions) eventually to be used for the WMF product development
process <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_product_development_process>.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-…
DJ