On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:35 AM, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
Most software is either internal business software,
where users are
obliged to put up with almost anything, or consumer-oriented, where
users are mostly uninvolved and fickle. The product management methods
in either of those spaces probably wouldn't work well here: Wikipedians,
as volunteers, can't be ordered around. They also aren't just consumers;
they're a community, one that wants to engage deeply. But I think we can
take tools from both and figure out something that works here.
I was hoping that there might be some paid developers working on it,
now that it's become such a high profile featuer. And you *can* order
them around.
But in any case, I don't think that developers would object to someone
telling them which terms to use, how to lay out the GUI etc. (Most
developers I've known are more than happy to abdicate responsibility
for such things.)
Are there historical examples of WMF development
projects that have gone
particularly well? I'd love to look at them in detail.
The Usability stuff is proceeding very nicely!
Steve