Oh, what a good question. I hadn't really thought about it before, and I
should have; thanks for bringing it up.
We've got a wishlist survey Phabricator board, with all of the core
tracking tickets:
The tickets from the top 10 all have related investigation tickets, and it
would be great to have people participate on those threads. Right now,
we're still in the investigation phase for pretty much everything, so it's
more talking than coding at the moment. That'll change soon, as we move
towards getting to work on some of the projects.
We're going to publish a first report on the preliminary assessments,
including all the discussions we had with people at the Developer Summit
earlier this week. I'm going to work on that next week, hopefully
publishing on-wiki by the end of the week (or not long after). So there'll
be more info coming soon, once I've had time to transfer all the knowledge
from my notebook to Phabricator and wiki pages. :)
Danny Horn
Product Manager, Community Tech
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I dont speak for the comunity tech team - but im
pretty sure they would
love any and all help (as would pretty much any foundation team). It is
probably a good idea to check in with the team and tell them what you are
planning to work on in order to make sure you arent duplicating any work
--bawolff
On Friday, January 8, 2016, Bill Morrisson <billmorrissonjr(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello
I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top
10
wishes of the community wishlist or can only
start working on those
wishes
that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer
developers need a
particular permission for that.
Thanks
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Henning,
>
> If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve
> automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human
> contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more
dead
> links than people willing to replace them.
>
> On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external
> links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are
just
> the pages where somebody's added the Dead
link template. There are a lot
of
> missing references -- not just on English WP,
but on all the projects --
> and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again.
>
> For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that
> information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we
can
> collect when a new link is added to the page.
But I think finding
> alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard
to
> scale.
>
> Danny
> PM, Community Tech
>
> [1]:
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann <
> h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote:
> >
> > > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes)
> >
> > I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the
> > quality of Wikipedia.
> >
> > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead
of
> > looking for
> >
> > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved.
> > b) alternative sources for the same fact.
> >
> > Ciao Henning
> >
> >
> >
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