On Saturday, September 6, 2014, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
So we think a support forum like the Teahouse, and its equivalent in other languages may be a good place to start -- provided the hosts agree that there are no dealbreaker issues for them.
What about setting up some kind of Flow self-service for projects? Let play to those wiling to play, in the way they think it's best for their projects.
Potential requirements to join the Flow self-service:
* At least one tech ambassador volunteering to act as contact between the project and the Flow team, summarizing community feedback in the channels agreed (mw:Talk:Flow, etc). * Community agreement after a public discussion in the project. * Selection of a first page to try Flow.
When the requirements are met, Flow is enabled in that project and activated in that page. A month of trial follows, and after that the community must evaluate whether it is worth activating Flow in more pages or wait. Maybe at some point the admins of the project can control in which pages Flow is deployed?
While we (Wikimedia movement) dedicate so much time to negotiate incremental deployments of Flow in some sensitive and tough arenas, maybe there are huge regions in our communities where editors would welcome a test of this feature. The feedback of these early adopters would help fine-tuning Flow and to better define the development priorities, since longer term use of regular editors provides a more complete perspective than power users in mediawiki.org alone.