Arun, thanks for your enthusiasm on this :). If you've got any ideas, suggestions or comments, the Talk page on Mediawiki.org for the Micro Design Improvements project is probably the best place to put them. Alternately you *can* go directly to me, but I'd prefer to have ideas discussed publicly whenever possible: as you note, it's hard for remote contractors to get involved in discussions, and I see greater transparency as a way of making this easier :). I'm a remote worker myself. I'll be encouraging people to use the MW.org pages as more than just an etherpad or features spec: it's a good venue to publicly have the discussions about what we're including, why we're including it and what we've got coming up.
Thanks!
From: Vibha Bamba vbamba@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [Design] Remote participation in ongoing design projects To: "A list for the design team." design@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi Arun, MDI is something I started because there is a lot of small low hanging fruit that we can try to address with with the community (Like you stated) Its also bits and pieces that may never be roadmap priorities because they are too small.
I believe they can cumulatively contribute to a better UX. Please feel free to log your ideas on the wiki and connect with Oliver. Oliver is the community liason on this project. We are testing the waters with one starter project to see how implementation might pan out and if this approach will fly.
Thanks Vibha
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.planemad@gmail.com wrote:
As a contractor working on UX improvement, I realize there is a lot of
work that the wmf design team is upto which I can involve myself with. I'm particularly interested in the low hanging fruits [1] where I think a lot of the random ideas I have can fit in. Being remote however means that it is not always easy to attend design discussion meetings and am cut off from any offline conversation that takes place when the lid is down.
In the interest of me and other remote participants interested in
providing feedback to critical wmf design projects, what would be the recommended channel to keep an eye on to follow the activity on different projects? I would think mediawiki is where all documentation should be eventually consolidated, but in reality is not updated often enough to be of much use.
Hopefully i'm not missing the party somewhere where i've not looked, in
which case you should toss me in the pool :)