The initiative is good also to train the community how to approach the tools' development.
I think, and this is not a comment for Wikisource for it's a general comment, that a tool is not a simple piece of software running for a bunch of things.
The name "tool" is correct because is something available for a use: it can used or not used.
Instead a "service" is a combination of tools, processes and people.
Good tools are important to build a good service but are not sufficient.
The real problem is that people miss always these three aspects and in addition there is a wrong approach of programmers to build a tool with a bad planning and analysis.
Several PM frameworks say that 80% of the time must be dedicated to plan, because a good planning is mandatory for a good result.
The results of this survey are interesting, but this is a simple "initiation process", it means that the better evaluation must follow.
So it's correct that a simple tool doesn't solve a problem.
Kind regards
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
(splitting as per Richard request)
Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a software developer in mind who would probably like to work with you if resources
are
available and a project has the support of the community and WMF.
Pine
Hi Pine. My personal answer to your question is: no. Because we've already tried that, and we did barely scratch the surface of the issues. I'm on mobile and cannot provide you details and references, but in the past years we used both IEG and Google Summer of Code for funding developers, and we had few successinaddressing main issues. Also, tools that worked and were helpful are now abandoned. What wikisource lacks is development to core software, not only external, cool tools, which are fine but in the end don't really solve problems.
I can elaborate further and bore you with details but, ina nutshell, we just need commitment from people who can bring theirlines ofcode into production. As Wikisource is formally a Wikimedia project, and provides its tiny contribution to the mission and also to fundraising, I would expect a commitment of this sort coming from WMF.
Aubrey
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