Hello, Brian.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Why are so few community-developed mediawiki extensions used by the Foundation?
The plan for Usability Initiative includes intensive reviews of MediaWiki extensions which are already available. Then we will enable candidate extensions with some set of test data in the test and lab environment. Community involvement is essential in validating which extensions to adopt.
Usability test is targeted for users with no or little experience in editing Wikipedia and the goal is to identify interactive obstacles. The proposed solution will be tested for feedback similar way as testing existing extensions.
I also believe it is important to iterate the process above so that we can reach out to as many as possible.
The project page is in the plan and once it is up, I hope to exchange and share ideas with the community.
Best,
- Naoko