Please, don't forget to make the website translatable. Although most
tech people speak English, they will be much more pleased to
contribute if they are invited in their mother tongue. :)
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you Yuvi for putting efforts in new contributor
outreach!
Let me plug in the thoughts and discussions we have got in a similar
direction so far. Back in January Ross (CCed) had the same idea and we
started discussing until I enourage him to move to wiki pages & here for
further details. Also, let's start applying the lessons learned with the
'Wikitech contributors' debate.
On 04/07/2013 03:11 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
Why not doing exactly the same but on
mediawiki.org directly? All the effort
put on promoting a brand new site could be put instead in promoting
mediawiki.org in a new, fresh way.
Why not use the technologies we are already developing? like
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour
We would become their users, we would help testing and improving them. The
effort you are putting contributing code on this new project could be put
instead in patches to those extensions, better CSS and look & feel for our
site, etc. Producing and eating our own dog food.
Why not improving
mediawiki.org pages making them friendly to newcomers
instead of creating content from scratch that would point to the same
mediawiki.org pages that we would need to improve anyway?
For example, no matter how nice your page on Lua is, the users clicking it
would still land on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua ....
Thoughts on what to put there? I cal already
think of the following
languages to put up:
1. PHP
2. JS
3. Lua
4. Python
5. Java
6. Obj-C
7. 'Design'
This recollection is exactly the same work we are calling "One ontology" at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors#One_ontology
Why not creating
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/One_ontology , move
this list there and continue defining more categories on that page?
I'll start a wiki page sometime to collect
content, and then spend
some time writing the code - we can even fork the original site's code
and use it.
Yes please, start a wiki page documenting this effort that I hope becomes
the same effort that we want to put in
mediawiki.org. URL suggested:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/What_can_I_do
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