[Labs-admin] Fwd: How's PAWS treating ya?

[Yuvi Panda]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Feedback from one of the profs using PAWS in their class :D
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> I already told JMo this, but I just want to re-inforce it with you: “I
>> think the work Yuvi and the rest of you have done to develop and
>> maintain the PAWS infrastructure is amazing for both pedagogical and
>> research purposes, but documentation on how to access and use this
>> infrastructure is incredibly hard to find and follow. I suspect PAWS
>> has >60% of the functionality researchers would want (would be >90% if
>> content were in the database as well, and >99% if
>> revs+content+pageviews). I really really really want pageviews table
>> in PAWS!”
>
> Another vote for our old friend "the docs are crappy" :/
>
> I hope I can find some budget and people to start tackling this core
> problem soon. Toby likes to say goofy things like "finding good tech
> writers is easy", but that doesn't match my historical experience here
> or at other companies. Does anyone have ideas about groups we could
> reach out to that may know where to find aspiring tech writers or
> accomplished ones who are interested in contributing to FLOSS
> projects?

We could ask Sumana - she'd probably know someone?

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