Thanks for finding that page. I don't know
how much that kind of chat
system would help our editor numbers but it's worth discussing. Any
comments from the Growth and EE teams?
Pine
On Aug 12, 2014 8:10 PM, "quiddity" <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The pro and cons of web-chat, and some technical
options are collated
at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Live_Chat_System
(especially the 2nd-to-last section, for "Why not IRC?")
IRC makes followup discussion, or time-delayed discussion, too
difficult, if the user doesn't use their identical username, and state
their home-wiki. Also, it shows IPs if users don't obtain a cloak first.
However, just for informational purposes, here are links for easy
comparison:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/test
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#test
( the default client uses
http://www.qwebirc.org/ )
HTH,
Quiddity
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we
> have plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make
> incremental improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new
> tool from scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to
> texting and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie
> user experience.
>
> Pine
> On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the
>> questions Seb
>> poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode
>> interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult
>> (not to
>> mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along
>> the
>> lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and
>> people
>> who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever
>> you
>> want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat.
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