On 08/11/2014 01:17 AM, Pine W wrote:
Would WMF or the volunteer dev community be willing to
implement
this? If so, is filing a
Bugzilla bug the best way to get the wheels of
progress to turn?
It could potentially be installed on Wikimedia Labs. There are
instructions at
https://kiwiirc.com/docs/installing .
I agree not every new users is going to be comfortable with IRC.
However, I also think Kiwi is more user-friendly than Freenode's WebChat.
For users who are not comfortable with chat, there are other options,
including teahouses (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse)
help desks (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk) and such.
Matt Flaschen