On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thoughts
Great. I was thinking the same thing last time during WikiConference India too. We had couple of hackers hacking around in one room, and editors editing in another room. When some of us took time to go near them, they told about various issues they face (but this one was more or less language specific, wiki-centric issue etc), and when we sat near them and tried fixing it, it worked, and they were overjoyed! I think this might be the only possible way to reduce the gap between users and devs.
Quoting one more situation, there was a Wikimedian there at the WCI, who was typing in page titles to a wiki page and waiting for the red/blue link to show up to check if the page exists. He was doing it as part of some project. which was to find out which all pages never existed for a list (don't know who gave him the list, though) - and create the same in his home wiki. Experts would know it can be done with a python script calling one of API, and I was lucky to show him that.
Wait, this might move the focus from a Mediawiki Dev summit, though - but something like this should happen, I hope.
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