Hello, dear all.
I am not sure if this is the right place to suggest to Wikipedia MediaWiki development people. I believe that having a good feedback, including suggestions, is very important to Wikipedia's further development.
Google is one of the companies that really cares about the feedback from users, they say it that they love to hear from the users. It has a well-developed feedback gathering system, which is accessible through the help on their services.
I believe one of the success factors of Google was trying to be good for people, so people wanted to give out their good ideas on further development. People like to give good suggestions to the one who is creating something that they like.
I believe the time has come, and Wikipedia has the level of importance to the World, where people would want to give their good ideas out to Wikipedia software developers.
So one suggestion would be to make such a feedback system, and there should be a much larger number of people giving out their ideas; some of which might be of real value.
Mindaugas Indriunas wrote:
I believe the time has come, and Wikipedia has the level of importance to the World, where people would want to give their good ideas out to Wikipedia software developers.
So one suggestion would be to make such a feedback system, and there should be a much larger number of people giving out their ideas; some of which might be of real value.
Until we can demonstrate being able to keep up with the feedback, ideas, and requests we already get it probably would just be an exercise in frustration to ask for more. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 19/10/06, Mindaugas Indriunas inyuki@gmail.com wrote:
So one suggestion would be to make such a feedback system, and there should be a much larger number of people giving out their ideas; some of which might be of real value.
There are many ways to give feedback to both the MediaWiki and Wikimedia guys. You can make suggestions on the IRC channels, make suggestions and proposals on these mailing lists, make suggestions and proposals on a few Wikis (http://meta.wikimedia.org/ http://www.mediawiki.org/), or post a bug/feature request at Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/).
I would say with confidence that the Mediawiki developers are far closer and more responsive to their users. Importantly, they are mostly volunteers drawn from the Wikimedia community.
Creating feedback form (unless you put the feedback link into a very visible place) shouldn't increase the feedback load.
On the contrary, complex feedback form asking to categorize the suggestion, and giving already frequently suggested ideas to review before sending something new, would reduce the feedback load amount, and increase it's quality.
Gradually you could put the feedback link somewhere in a more visible place if you felt that the lack of feedback.
On 10/20/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/10/06, Mindaugas Indriunas inyuki@gmail.com wrote:
So one suggestion would be to make such a feedback system, and there should be a much larger number of people giving out their ideas; some of which might be of real value.
There are many ways to give feedback to both the MediaWiki and Wikimedia guys. You can make suggestions on the IRC channels, make suggestions and proposals on these mailing lists, make suggestions and proposals on a few Wikis (http://meta.wikimedia.org/ http://www.mediawiki.org/), or post a bug/feature request at Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/).
I would say with confidence that the Mediawiki developers are far closer and more responsive to their users. Importantly, they are mostly volunteers drawn from the Wikimedia community.
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