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