[Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

[Oliver Keyes]

Jan; we get new features fairly regularly :). At the moment we're working
on two new pieces of software - the Article Feedback Form, v5, and New Page
Triage (a replacement for Special:NewPages). After that we're moving on to
a proper notifications system to allow better communication and
participation across wikis. I appreciate the rate of progress may seem
slow; it is worth pointing out we have a very small teem of features
engineers (although more are being hired!) and so are limited in how many
different things we can work on at once.

On 25 April 2012 19:50, Jan Kučera <kozuch82 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive.
> But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not
> even nearing deployment). WMF should invest in new features. I am not
> a dev and thus can not contribute any code.
>
> Kozuch
>
> 2012/4/25 Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah at wikimedia.org>:
> > On 04/23/2012 01:03 PM, Jan Ku?era wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >>> If, on the other hand, you just mean "features to promote greater
> >>> communication and networking between editors", that's a clear priority
> -
> >>> I'm happy to talk to people about the work we're doing, and to hear any
> >>> suggestions along the way :).
> >>
> >> yes I exactly meant that. It is about making contributing not "suck".
> >> How often does Wikipedia (=MediaWiki) get big new features??? I posted
> >> a bug about integrating some kind of graph/chart feature
> >> (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29806) and in 9 months
> >> almost nothing happened... and this really sucks... beleive it or
> >> not...
> >>
> >> Kozuch
> >
> >
> > Hi, Kozuch.  I look at
> >
> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29806
> >
> > and I see that, within a day of the issue being filed, multiple
> > experienced MediaWiki developers commented on that issue to explain what
> > the chart software's developers would have to do in order to make it
> > suitable for use on our sites.  I've also contacted the author of that
> > extension to point at that bug's comments and at this procedural guide:
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment
> >
> > so if you could help me in alerting the extension's author to those
> > comments, that would be great.  Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Sumana Harihareswara
> > Volunteer Development Coordinator
> > Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation