On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
And that's just the Product/Design piece – in addition to implementing visual design/UI improvements, I imagine there would also be some technical hurdles like doing a spike around Magnus's codebase to ensure we didn't melt a game by sending (potentially) hundreds of thousands of people into it all at once; finding a way to hook into CentralAuth/OAuth to ensure these edits are attributed to logged-in users; etc.
I hate to chime in with a "me too" but a reminder that legal also has some concerns around the TOU/CC here as well- how are they presented? when are they agreed to? if we build a standard "shell" that many people can use/experiment with, how do we make sure the fun/new/cool stuff maintains the same licensing integrity people expect from the main website/existing apps?
Nothing we can't resolve (and hopefully nothing we can't resolve quickly!) but please do keep in mind as people are experimenting and thinking about things.
Luis "wet blanket" Villa