Hi all, it was great to talk to some of you yesterday at the London meetup,
and especially the discussion around trying to better organise those
Wikimedians who are also software developers. I think we all agree that
some of the tools people have created to edit and improve Wikipedia,
Commons etc are really useful, but that they aren't very accessible or user
friendly. I think we could make a useful impact if we could organise
developers to put their heads together to work on improving and extending
the vast array of tools that exist already. To this end, I've started a
Slack channel for Wikimedia developers to discuss how we might move forward
with the idea. If you would like to be added to the channel to discuss with
other Wikimedia developers how to take the idea forward and share what you
might already be working on, please reply with your interest and let me
know your email address so I can send you an invite to the channel,
wikidevsuk.slack.com .
All the best,
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK