On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)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.
Thanks,
Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas>
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