On 04/08/2013 01:34 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi,
Most ideas behind "Onboarding new Wikipedians" [1] are perfectly applicable to mediawiki.org and our problem onboarding new potential contributors.
Do you think the new Account creation UX, GettingStarted and GuidedTours could help us here? If so, let's talk.
Definitely. ACUX is planned for MW core, so it will make it to MW.org in due course. Login (which has a similar UI) could make it to MW.org as soon as Monday.
GuidedTour is already installed on MW.org (try https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker?tour=test ). There are no tours intended for MW.org contributors yet, but any MW.org admin can write them. The relevant tutorial is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours/Write_an_on-wiki_tour . You may have some guidance on that, and I'm glad to help clarify.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors is the evolution of the "Wikitech contributors" proposal discussed in the past days. A big change in the proposal is the aim to become a dedicated early adopter of EE's new features instead of trying to find temporary shortcuts for the roadmapped/missing features. Feedback and volunters welcome!
This will require investing some time, but I think it should pay off.
GettingStarted may not quite be doable yet. In its current form, it expects new users to start working on simple tasks (e.g. fixing spelling and adding links). I'm not sure that paradigm applies to MW.org, but maybe it does.
Matt Flaschen