Yes, if there are wishes that we can't work on -- or we can only do one part of a larger wish -- then it's our team's responsibility to really think it through, and report back to the community about it.
We're planning to have some checkpoints through the year, where we'll give a report on how things are going. The first one is going to be at the Wikimedia Developers Summit in the first week of January, and after the Summit we'll publish the information, including notes from the conversations that we have at the event.
Then there are other Wikimedia events that we can use as checkpoints -- the Hackathon in April, Wikimania in June -- so that we can keep people updated about how things are going.
We're also keeping our notes on a Meta page, so interested people can follow along if they like -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10
Right now, that's just notes from some preliminary assessment meetings, so it's not particularly thrilling, but ideas will get more concrete as we go.
I'm glad people are excited about this year; we are too.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Wow!
I have strong opinions about everything on this list and apparently so do many other people.
It was fun to participate in the proposal process.
If any of these proposals are not feasible to develop then I would enjoy reading a short explanation explaining why from the perspective of a developer to a layman audience.
The entire list seems like magic to me - it is so many things that I want.
yours,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Sam Klein sjklein@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
Thanks to all for organizing the survey and for sharing!
A lot of these should help people stay in touch on smaller wikis and sibling projects where they are less active (and currently less likely to see pings and messages), so while I also want to see wikisource take over the world, these seem like great choices.
It's wonderful to see a cross-organization collaboration topping the
list.
Slow migration back to a single unified namespace: #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua #4. Cross-wiki watchlist #8. Cross-wiki user talkpage
And a mentor-friendly feature I've wanted for a long time: #10. Add a user watchlist
SJ
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Danny Horn dhorn@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes!
634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed
and
voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit
and
endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10
proposals
with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's
backlog
of
projects to evaluate and address.
And here's the top 10:
#1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) #2. Improved diff compare screen (104) #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules
(87)
#4. Cross-wiki watchlist (84) #4. Numerical sorting in categories (84) #6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages (78) #7. Pageview Stats tool (70) #8. Global cross-wiki user talk page (66) #9. Improve the "copy and paste detection" bot (63) #10. Add a user watchlist (62)
You can see the whole list here, with links to all the proposals and Phabricator tickets: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So what happens now?
Over the next couple weeks, Community Tech will do a preliminary
assessment
on the top 10, and start figuring out what's involved. We need to have
a
clear definition of the problem and proposed solution, and begin to understand the technical, design and community challenges for each one.
Some wishes in the top 10 seem relatively straightforward, and we'll be able to dig in and start working on them in the new year. Some wishes
are
going to need a lot of investigation and discussion with other
developers,
product teams, designers and community members. There may be some that
are
just too big or too hard to do at all.
Our analysis will look at the following factors:
- SUPPORT: Overall support for the proposal, including the discussions
on
the survey page. This will take the neutral and oppose votes into
account.
Some of these ideas also have a rich history of discussions on-wiki and
in
bug tickets. For some wishes, we'll need more community discussion to
help
define the problem and agree on proposed solutions.
- FEASIBILITY: How much work is involved, including existing blockers
and
dependencies.
- IMPACT: Evaluating how many projects and contributors will benefit,
whether it's a long-lasting solution or a temporary fix, and the improvement in contributors' overall productivity and happiness.
- RISK: Potential drawbacks, conflicts with other developers' work, and
negative effects on any group of contributors.
Our plan for 2016 is to complete as many of the top 10 wishes as we
can.
For the wishes in the top 10 that we can't complete, we're responsible
for
investigating them fully and reporting back on the analysis.
So there's going to be a series of checkpoints through the year, where we'll present the current status of the top 10 wishes. The first will
be
at
the Wikimedia Developer Summit in the first week of January. We're
planning
to talk about the preliminary assessment there, and then share it more widely.
If you're eager to follow the whole process as we go along, we'll be documenting and keeping notes in two places:
On Meta: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Top 10: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10
On Phabricator: Community Wishlist Survey board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/
Finally: What about the other 97 proposals?
There were a lot of good and important proposals that didn't happen to
get
quite as many support votes, and I'm sure everybody has at least one
that
they were rooting for. Again, the whole list is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if
they
can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed interest
in.
We're also going to work with the Developer Relations team to see if
some
of these could be taken on by volunteer developers.
It's also possible that Community Tech could take on a small-scale, well-defined proposal below the top 10, if it doesn't interfere with
our
commitments to the top 10 wishes.
So there's lots of work to be done, and hooray, we have a whole year to
do
it. If this process turns out to be a success, then we plan to do
another
survey at the end of 2016, to give more people a chance to participate,
and
bring more great ideas.
For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in
the
survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank
you
very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're excited about the work ahead of us.
We'd also like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland's Technischer
Communitybedarf
team -- they came up with this whole survey process, and they've been working successfully on lots of community wishes since their first
survey
in 2013.
You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News
Thanks!
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