<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>While this thread was initially inspired by the feelings so accurately captured by Picard and Riker, there is another observation that I feel is worth acknowledging. <br><br>As a global entity, the Wikimedia movement is often challenged by communication across diverse cultures, languages, and the realities of gender dynamics and history, among a plethora of other diversity-related considerations that are too numerous to list exhaustively here. Simply put, that often means that someone from one part of the world might not understand someone from another, and that is too often exacerbated by idiomatic language (to say nothing of my own verbosity here). <br><br>This holds especially true online, where non-verbal communication lacks the nuance of a face-to-face encounter. The movement is concerned with broadening the sharing of information, and shared understanding. It's easy to see how that can be especially difficult with the challenges described.<br><br></div><div>Inside jokes are fun, and often harmless (or better yet, provide opportunities to bond). They can also, to quote a colleague who helped me think through this, "perpetuate an exclusive vs inclusive experience." In this case, the joke assumes that everyone knows the best practice that passwords should not be simple and should not be written down. In discussing this with another colleague who helped me figure out what I was trying to articulate, the following was put to my attention, from the <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Principles" target="_blank">ongoing draft of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces</a>:<br></div><br>"Technical skills and community status make no difference to the right to
be respected and the obligation to respect others. Newcomers and other
contributors with limited experience in our community deserve a
welcoming attitude and constructive feedback. Prolific contributions and
technical expertise are not a justification for lower standards of
behavior."<br><br></div>At the very least, as yet another insightful colleague put it, the inconsistency of language in a UI can cause added cognitive load when using the product. At worst, things like the text in the standard Phabricator password-reset email can create a distancing user experience for those unfamiliar with the space from which the Phacility team is coming. I wanted to make sure that that reality was acknowledged, particularly given the space in which the Wikimedia movement operates. <br></div><div><br><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Prateek Saxena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psaxena@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">psaxena@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">They moved the fun stuff to <a href="https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.phacility.com/phab<wbr>ricator/</a> it seems.<br>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Željko Filipin <<a href="mailto:zfilipin@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">zfilipin@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Greg Grossmeier <<a href="mailto:greg@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">greg@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Yeah, take a look at <a href="http://phabricator.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">phabricator.com</a>, a bit different style of humor, but<br>
>> they're consistent :)<br>
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> As far as I remember, their home page had several jokes. Looks like they<br>
> went all serious and corporate recently, there is just one link to pokemon<br>
> site. :|<br>
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> <a href="https://phacility.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phacility.com/</a><br>
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> Željko<br>
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