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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