On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
Until we have better tech available, I want to assure you that I want to be available, and apart from Meta, I gladly offer IRC or video conversations, or other media, to whoever feels it may be useful (let's track this committment of mine in the old-fashioned way for now).
Rather than IRC or video, which both have significant problems for this type of open engagement, perhaps WMF could install a modern group chat system, like Zulip, or another Slack-like tool.
The enthusiasm for Discourse hasnt resulted in any significant adoption. I venture to suggest that this is because it isnt mobile friendly, and doesnt integrate with MediaWiki authentication. Their app is little more than a web-browser (and the WMF labs instance doesnt support the necessary API anyway.) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124691 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150733
I've created a task about this problem for GCI and Outreachy which are about to start:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150732
I see Slack is being used by Portuguese Wikipedia
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Slack
It would be good to hear their opinion on this tool?
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dariuz, I like how you're thinking. Perhaps the Board could make public use of Phabricator to triage and track issues.
+1