On Jun 10, 2014 9:33 AM, "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW, for me as a power user who watches many discussions
simultaneously on
multiple wikis, a unified watchlist and more refined tools for watchlist management are among the features at the top of my development wish
list.
*nod* The watchlist is an awesome tool, and there's so much more we could do with it. :) I like the theme Danny's proposed for the first quarter work on Flow: "Never miss a message". When Flow begins to deliver on that promise, I think power users will start seeing some of the advantages such a system affords.
I never doubted there will be advantages, I'm quite certain there will be, both for powerusers and for newcomers. Yet there will also be disadvantages, and they will probably be major. Since the option to keep mediawiki discussions for some processes, or the ability to represent a discussion in both wikitext and flow are explicitly not on the table, I'm trying to bring up as many issues I can think of, even if they are qualified as insane. This is a big operation, and "why didn't you say something earlier" is a valid criticism; one I prefer to prevent.
--Martijn
Please don't hesitate to note requests/suggestions on the Talk:Flow page
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow
And please comment on the overall roadmap here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals
Thanks :)
Erik
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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