On 01/29/2013 11:12 AM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 01/29/2013 02:22 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
A user script on a local project is probably the lowest barrier to entry new project possible.
Quim, I hope you don't mind that I'm giving content feedback, rather than design. You should probably ask for content feedback again on Wikitech at some point
Yes, I just want to have the content more ironed before jumping to wikitech-l.
Steven is definitely right re gadgets. The slide as written really applies more to user scripts. You can't share a gadget directly, since it requires admin approval. It's pretty easy to turn a user script into a gadget, though.
Ok. Thinking...
For the Labs slide, I would also focus more on "Want to host some cool Wikimedia- or MediaWiki-related project? Do it on Labs!"
While some volunteers will use Labs to practice being a production sysadmin, I think they're the minority.
More will do things like OxygenGuide (Wikivoyage project now hosted on Labs) or ProveIt (http://proveit.wmflabs.org/)
The problem is that primarily I want to do a Sysadmin slide, being the mention to Labs a consequence of it. I asked the DevOps team what kind of sysadmin contributions could someone volunteer for and had a hard time getting an answer I could use. Kind of a paradox considering that sysadmin was a basic volunteering tech task years ago, but I'm digressing. :)
There's a a couple minor typos:
- (too/to) on the API slide.
- "there is hundreds" should be "are".
I don't know a lot about it, but (per question in slides) I do think people are being shifted from Toolserver to Labs.
I wouldn't describe MediaWiki/Core as a CMS (it's really wiki software). Just "Core software" should be fine. And maybe "some do enjoy", dropping insiders. For that slide, you can use the MW logo (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/b/bc/Wiki.png)
Good points. Expect them fixed in the next iteration.
Thank you!