Jan; we get new features fairly regularly :). At the moment we're working
on two new pieces of software - the Article Feedback Form, v5, and New Page
Triage (a replacement for Special:NewPages). After that we're moving on to
a proper notifications system to allow better communication and
participation across wikis. I appreciate the rate of progress may seem
slow; it is worth pointing out we have a very small teem of features
engineers (although more are being hired!) and so are limited in how many
different things we can work on at once.
On 25 April 2012 19:50, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive.
But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not
even nearing deployment). WMF should invest in new features. I am not
a dev and thus can not contribute any code.
Kozuch
2012/4/25 Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On 04/23/2012 01:03 PM, Jan Ku?era wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>> If, on the other hand, you just mean "features to promote greater
>> communication and networking between editors", that's a clear priority
-
I'm happy to talk to people about the work
we're doing, and to hear any
suggestions along the way :).
yes I exactly meant that. It is about making contributing not "suck".
How often does Wikipedia (=MediaWiki) get big new features??? I posted
a bug about integrating some kind of graph/chart feature
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29806) and in 9 months
almost nothing happened... and this really sucks... beleive it or
not...
Kozuch
Hi, Kozuch. I look at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29806
and I see that, within a day of the issue being filed, multiple
experienced MediaWiki developers commented on that issue to explain what
the chart software's developers would have to do in order to make it
suitable for use on our sites. I've also contacted the author of that
extension to point at that bug's comments and at this procedural guide:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment
so if you could help me in alerting the extension's author to those
comments, that would be great. Thanks!
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