In my perspective, there should be two things on this list:
* Invitations to test new features. "Testing" in this case is
something that can be done by somebody who is an end user who has an
"early adopter" character and who is curious about technologies, but
who is not necessarily a developer. The new feature must be set up
online somewhere: in labs, as an opt-in feature in an existing
Wikipedia or Wikisource, in
translatewiki.net or some other site. It
usually shouldn't be needed to install software on your own computer
to test features announced here - installing MediaWiki is too hard for
non-developer users. Announcement of Visual Editor features
deployments in Meta is a good example of this.
* Announcements about new features that break existing gadgets,
templates, features or content in existing projects, and require
change in their code. The change is not necessarily something that the
ambassador can do himself or understand completely, because the
ambassador is not necessarily a coder, but it must be something that
the ambassador must be able to convey to the techie types in his
community. The announcement of the $.browser deprecation by Krinkle a
few days ago is a good example of this.
Of course, there can be other opinions.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2012/11/10 Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Thanks for being on this list and helping communicate
about technology
on Wikimedia sites.
What kinds of discussions or notifications would you like to have on
this list? Or in general, if you don't think they quite belong here?
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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