I've been doing a lot of thinking about products that have been built in the past years, discussions that we are having about current developments and about future projects.
And I noticed that I really needed to put some of that down somewhere public. So I have created the following:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Analysis A place to analyse things we have right now, both in software, content and process. To figure out why they are how they are, what they mean, break them down into parts. Knowing things like this will help us build better products.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Concepts A place where I want to log some product ideas that I have been considering for a while.
These places are meant to inspire discussion, strategy, design, as well as document.
Additionally, I would like to point out that Risker has been writing down a checklist for products from her perspective, which I think is a great idea and welcome more people to do. Hopefully, such checklists can be consolidated into a more 'formalized' standard (a bit like we also have code conventions) eventually to be used for the WMF product development process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_product_development_process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Risker/Risker%27s_checklist_for_content-c...
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