On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
As for dates and how many / which devs will be assigned to it I can't say, but it all ties in with just about every other "new editor retention" project. (For instance MoodBar's comments need a better way to get replies and notify the original poster about it.)
Absolutely. We're currently wrapping up work on the feedback dashboard, which will then go into maintenance mode for a while. After that (probably ~mid-January) we'll tackle the new page creation / triage work that we've committed to do.
We had originally planned to handle identity (user profiles / surfacing basic reputational info) as the next big area of work. But my bias is to re-jiggle that and tackle messaging/notifications next, because as you say it factors into so many problems, including what we've done so far with the FB dashboard, as well as bottom-up efforts by the community to recruit and help new users.
This may mean building on the LQT codebase, but there are probably some quick wins in notification that we can get without going all the way.
"Next" though would likely still mean no sooner than March/April. Any help is as always appreciated.
Erik