Thanks for finding that page. I don't know
how much that kind of chat
system would help our editor numbers but it's worth discussing. Any
comments from the Growth and EE teams?
Pine
On Aug 12, 2014 8:10 PM, "quiddity" <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The pro and cons of web-chat, and some technical
options are collated at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Live_Chat_System
(especially the 2nd-to-last section, for "Why not IRC?")
IRC makes followup discussion, or time-delayed discussion, too
difficult, if the user doesn't use their identical username, and state
their home-wiki. Also, it shows IPs if users don't obtain a cloak first.
However, just for informational purposes, here are links for easy
comparison:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/test
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#test
( the default client uses
http://www.qwebirc.org/ )
HTH,
Quiddity
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That proposal could be considered in the long
term, but right now we
have plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make
incremental improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new
tool from scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to
texting and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie
user experience.
Pine
On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the
> questions Seb
> poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode
> interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not
> to
> mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along
> the
> lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and
> people
> who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever you
> want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat.
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