Thank you Danny & Company!
Pine
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
No one asked for 10 more wishes? :)
Thanks Danny and the Community Tech team. This is a great model for working
with our Communities.
-Toby
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Nirzar Pangarkar <
npangarkar(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
It's really cool to see community wish list
coming together!
We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia
product teams, to see if
they can take on some of the ideas the the community has
expressed
interest
in.
+1
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist
> Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes!
>
> 634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed
and
> voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week
period in November to submit
and
> endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of
voting. The top 10 proposals
> with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's
backlog
of
> projects to evaluate and address.
>
> And here's the top 10:
>
> #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes)
> #2. Improved diff compare screen (104)
> #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules
(87)
> #4. Cross-wiki watchlist (84)
> #4. Numerical sorting in categories (84)
> #6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages (78)
> #7. Pageview Stats tool (70)
> #8. Global cross-wiki user talk page (66)
> #9. Improve the "copy and paste detection" bot (63)
> #10. Add a user watchlist (62)
>
> You can see the whole list here, with links to all the proposals and
> Phabricator tickets:
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
>
> So what happens now?
>
> Over the next couple weeks, Community Tech will do a preliminary
> assessment on the top 10, and start figuring out what's involved. We
need
> to have a clear definition of the problem and
proposed solution, and
begin
> to understand the technical, design and
community challenges for each
one.
>
> Some wishes in the top 10 seem relatively straightforward, and we'll be
> able to dig in and start working on them in the new year. Some wishes
are
> going to need a lot of investigation and
discussion with other
developers,
> product teams, designers and community
members. There may be some that
are
> just too big or too hard to do at all.
>
> Our analysis will look at the following factors:
>
> * SUPPORT: Overall support for the proposal, including the discussions
on
> the survey page. This will take the neutral
and oppose votes into
account.
> Some of these ideas also have a rich history
of discussions on-wiki and
in
> bug tickets. For some wishes, we'll need
more community discussion to
help
> define the problem and agree on proposed
solutions.
>
> * FEASIBILITY: How much work is involved, including existing blockers
and
> dependencies.
>
> * IMPACT: Evaluating how many projects and contributors will benefit,
> whether it's a long-lasting solution or a temporary fix, and the
> improvement in contributors' overall productivity and happiness.
>
> * RISK: Potential drawbacks, conflicts with other developers' work, and
> negative effects on any group of contributors.
>
> Our plan for 2016 is to complete as many of the top 10 wishes as we can.
> For the wishes in the top 10 that we can't complete, we're responsible
for
> investigating them fully and reporting back
on the analysis.
>
> So there's going to be a series of checkpoints through the year, where
> we'll present the current status of the top 10 wishes. The first will
be
at
> the Wikimedia Developer Summit in the first
week of January. We're
planning
> to talk about the preliminary assessment
there, and then share it more
> widely.
>
> If you're eager to follow the whole process as we go along, we'll be
> documenting and keeping notes in two places:
>
> On Meta: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Top 10:
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10
>
> On Phabricator: Community Wishlist Survey board:
>
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/
>
> Finally: What about the other 97 proposals?
>
> There were a lot of good and important proposals that didn't happen to
> get quite as many support votes, and I'm sure everybody has at least one
> that they were rooting for. Again, the whole list is here:
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
>
> We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if
> they can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed
interest
> in. We're also going to work with the
Developer Relations team to see if
> some of these could be taken on by volunteer developers.
>
> It's also possible that Community Tech could take on a small-scale,
> well-defined proposal below the top 10, if it doesn't interfere with our
> commitments to the top 10 wishes.
>
> So there's lots of work to be done, and hooray, we have a whole year to
> do it. If this process turns out to be a success, then we plan to do
> another survey at the end of 2016, to give more people a chance to
> participate, and bring more great ideas.
>
> For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in
the
> survey, as well as everyone who said nice
things to us recently: thank
you
> very much for coming out and supporting live
feature development. We're
> excited about the work ahead of us.
>
> We'd also like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland's Technischer
> Communitybedarf team -- they came up with this whole survey process, and
> they've been working successfully on lots of community wishes since
their
first
survey in 2013.
You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News
Thanks!
Danny Horn
Product Manager, WMF Community Tech
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