I could imagine that certain types of bots, tools and gadgets would benefit if handled and developed with support from a chapter.
For instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot is used widely but cannot be maintained by its original author. It is currently being ported to Labs ( https://github.com/wrought/citation-bot ) to restore functionality, but due to ongoing developments in other areas (e.g. citation templates), adaptations are necessary on an ongoing basis. Who should do that? And what about feature requests?
Some bot owners manage to handle all this on their own, but having support from a chapter for such things (on an opt-in basis) or for feature requests from the wider community would probably be widely appreciated.
Daniel
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
Hi Erik (and whomever from WMDE),
For the benefit of chapters that are interested in this space, can you offer any examples of projects that are of an appropriate size and type for a chapter to take on? I think that most chapters* would be willing to help out in the software development space if we got a bit of direction on how we could be the most useful.
Cheers, Craig Franklin
- Keeping in mind that my chapter probably wouldn't have the capacity to
start anything in this space for at least another twelve months.
On 27 July 2013 09:57, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy.
For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related to the development of engineering capacity in FDC-funded organizations. I'm sure Wikimedia Germany, too, would be happy to share its experiences growing the Wikidata development team. I'd love to find ways to bootstrap more engineering capacity across the movement, as so many of our shared challenges have a software engineering component. If any folks on-list want to touch base on these questions at Wikimania, drop me a note. :)
Erik
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