On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:15 AM Gergő Tisza <gtisza(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 8:22 AM Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
+ Automatic translation of discussions is
essential, tangibly useful for
our communities, and very satisfying.
--> how can we bring this to Mediawiki? This is a core question for
community health, movement development, and tech. It is a straightforward
concept, not exclusive to Discourse, and we should learn from it.
I filed T309920 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309920> a while ago,
it has some technical details. IMO it's doable (although things usually
turn out harder than they look when they have to be built on top of an
unstructured soup of wikitext, but AIUI the Editing team has done some
great foundational work to make MediaWiki discussion pages more manageable,
so maybe these days that's less of an issue) but it would be a largish
project that would have to be slotted into the WMF's annual planning.
Thank you for this info. I hope it can be realistic and a priority for the
next annual plan.
+ Forum threading and features (tags, emotes) are
nice, beloved by some.
They aren't "nice", they are essential for scaling discussion. Just like
you can't manage thousands of articles without some kind of category
system, you can't manage thousands of discussions without some kind of
tagging system. And likes or reacjis allow scaling up the number of
participants without excluding anyone from the discussion who is unwilling
to spend several hours a day on reading new comments - they both cut down
on the number of comments, and allow software to highlight the most
important or most representative comments.
Well said...will only add that even most simple option to add 'like'-like
feedback makes huge difference as it at least partly cuts down on extra
messages that feel like unnecessary spam in big mailing-lists and telegram
groups (those that did not turned on that recent feature).
--> how might we support integrating discourse into a) mediawiki, b)
interwiki links? (so that a forum post could link
to *m:Power_structure*,
and a meta post could link to *f:Wikischool*)
MediaWiki is concept-addressable; forum software aren't because they need
to deal with more and messier content. You could have something with like
*f:123* but I'm not sure it adds value over plain links.
From what I learned as Drupal user is that having multiple (fixed and
flexible) taxonomies for tagging could be super useful and I hope this
feature gets developed in both core Discourse and MediaWiki (even if just
on user end).
– Wikimedia Space was closed after a year, and
its links no longer
resolve.
I apologize for that. Space needs to be migrated from Debian Stretch to
Buster as part of a generic upgrade of Wikimedia Cloud infrastructure. I
volunteered to do it but it turned out to be non-straightforward, or
possibly I've been going at it wrong, I ran out of time, and then kinda
forgot about it. I'll try to wrap it up soon.
Thank you for volunteering for this, but I think it should be
systematically done by more than one person and as part of WMF workflows.
--> how can we add discourse into current
versioning + archiving
workflows?
A good question regardless! There was some discussion in T235235
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235235>, but it didn't go far.
See also T262275 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262275>, which is
about a different Discourse site (which I didn't think was worth keeping
up), but it shows a minimal-effort solution for keeping discussion content
available and links working in perpetuity, although in a rather ugly format.
Think living with ugly is kind of bearable in Wikimedia world ;-p
~ what it might look like for this to later become a more standard part of
our wikiverse (e.g.,
*forum.wikimedia.org/c/strategy
<http://forum.wikimedia.org/c/strategy>*).
There's a bunch of discussion at
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-proposed-…
on why a *.wikimedia.org domain is unlikely to be used anytime soon.
IMHO use of w.wiki subdomains, should not be bad option :-)
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