[Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (it was: "Communication plans for community engagement"

[Daniel Mietchen]

I could imagine that certain types of bots, tools and gadgets would
benefit if handled and developed with support from a chapter.

For instance,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot
is used widely but cannot be maintained by its original author.
It is currently being ported to Labs (
https://github.com/wrought/citation-bot )
to restore functionality, but due to ongoing developments in other
areas (e.g. citation templates), adaptations are necessary on an
ongoing basis. Who should do that? And what about feature requests?

Some bot owners manage to handle all this on their own, but having
support from a chapter for such things (on an opt-in basis) or for
feature requests from the wider community would probably be widely
appreciated.

Daniel



On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Craig Franklin
<cfranklin at halonetwork.net> wrote:
> Hi Erik (and whomever from WMDE),
>
> For the benefit of chapters that are interested in this space, can you
> offer any examples of projects that are of an appropriate size and type for
> a chapter to take on?  I think that most chapters* would be willing to help
> out in the software development space if we got a bit of direction on how
> we could be the most useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig Franklin
>
> * Keeping in mind that my chapter probably wouldn't have the capacity to
> start anything in this space for at least another twelve months.
>
>
> On 27 July 2013 09:57, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER
>> <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other
>> > countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy.
>>
>> For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related
>> to the development of engineering capacity in FDC-funded
>> organizations. I'm sure Wikimedia Germany, too, would be happy to
>> share its experiences growing the Wikidata development team. I'd love
>> to find ways to bootstrap more engineering capacity across the
>> movement, as so many of our shared challenges have a software
>> engineering component. If any folks on-list want to touch base on
>> these questions at Wikimania, drop me a note. :)
>>
>> Erik
>>
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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