Hoi,
Indeed :) When an environment does not have proper services set up, when
there is no thought on how the resulting product is to be used, even those
services are of no use.
Wikisource and all its workflows is not the end product for instance. The
end product is for people to read the works that have been so meticulously
and often lovingly been made available. It is sad as it seems that the use
of the end users is never really considered.
Wikipedia has the obvious advantage of instant gratification. You write,
you save and the world can read it. All other projects with the exception
of Wiktionary do not have much in the sense of end user usage consideration.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 17 December 2015 at 10:09, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The initiative is good also to train the community how
to approach the
tools' development.
I think, and this is not a comment for Wikisource for it's a general
comment, that a tool is not a simple piece of software running for a bunch
of things.
The name "tool" is correct because is something available for a use: it can
used or not used.
Instead a "service" is a combination of tools, processes and people.
Good tools are important to build a good service but are not sufficient.
The real problem is that people miss always these three aspects and in
addition there is a wrong approach of programmers to build a tool with a
bad planning and analysis.
Several PM frameworks say that 80% of the time must be dedicated to plan,
because a good planning is mandatory for a good result.
The results of this survey are interesting, but this is a simple
"initiation process", it means that the better evaluation must follow.
So it's correct that a simple tool doesn't solve a problem.
Kind regards
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
(splitting as per Richard request)
> Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get
> resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the
> right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a
software
developer
in mind who would probably like to work with you if resources
are
available and a project has the support of the
community and WMF.
Pine
Hi Pine. My personal answer to your question is: no. Because we've
already
tried that, and we did barely scratch the surface
of the issues.
I'm on mobile and cannot provide you details and references, but in the
past years we used both IEG and Google Summer of Code for funding
developers, and we had few successinaddressing main issues. Also, tools
that worked and were helpful are now abandoned.
What wikisource lacks is development to core software, not only external,
cool tools, which are fine but in the end don't really solve problems.
I can elaborate further and bore you with details but, ina nutshell, we
just need commitment from people who can bring theirlines ofcode into
production. As Wikisource is formally a Wikimedia project, and provides
its
tiny contribution to the mission and also to
fundraising, I would expect
a
commitment of this sort coming from WMF.
Aubrey
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