On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you Yuvi for putting efforts in new contributor outreach!
Let me plug in the thoughts and discussions we have got in a similar direction so far. Back in January Ross (CCed) had the same idea and we started discussing until I enourage him to move to wiki pages & here for further details. Also, let's start applying the lessons learned with the 'Wikitech contributors' debate.
On 04/07/2013 03:11 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
I came across http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/ today, and proceeded to register whatcanidoforwikipedia.org :)
Why not doing exactly the same but on mediawiki.org directly? All the effort put on promoting a brand new site could be put instead in promoting mediawiki.org in a new, fresh way.
I think that this whatcanido whatever .org sites just sound more cool :) or I don't know why mozilla wouldn't use mozilla.org as well
Why not use the technologies we are already developing? like
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour
We would become their users, we would help testing and improving them. The effort you are putting contributing code on this new project could be put instead in patches to those extensions, better CSS and look & feel for our site, etc. Producing and eating our own dog food.
I don't think he needs to put much effort into it - the code exist and is on open source, it's not meant to replace these extensions, it's meant to create yet another way to lure more people :)