Rachel diCerbo wrote:
... Community Engagement is continuously considering effective ways of interacting with you around product development and would love your suggestions. What kinds of communications from WMF would you like to see?
Please volunteer to co-mentor my GSoC proposal:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review
There is absolutely no way I can possibly do this without a co-mentor from the WMF or WEF. It's not a hard task, and one of the major benefits I just learned yesterday is a robust implementation of per-word text attribution, which amazingly still hasn't been available to the wider community in a way that handles reverted blanking and text moves since WikiTrust went offline. Maribel Acosta, Fabian Floeck, and Andriy Rodchenko did a suitable replacement algorithm in 2013, but it hasn't been folded back into the Wikimedia Utilities distribution.
Please, WMF engineering staff, remember 2.5 years ago when I was literally the only one publicly arguing that you should be paid market rate for tech workers instead of lower nonprofit worker salaries? I took so much public abuse and scorn for that for over a year until it happened. Please consider giving back by co-mentoring the accuracy review GSoC proposal. It shouldn't take more than a few hours per week over the summer.
Best regards, James Salsman