On Saturday, September 6, 2014, Erik Moeller <erik(a)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.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil