On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Perhaps we could recruit some people from the he.wikipedia.org community
to
take problems reported (via the localized interface?) and reproduce
them or
act as a "translator" between developers and bug reporters?
There is already some infrastructure for this kind of idea: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
I didn't know about this mailing list until a few days ago, but it's a start in building the bridge between MediaWiki development and (power-)users.
MZMcBride
Fascinating! I didn't know this existed either. To answer Mark's question, I'm interested in facilitating more user participation in bug-collecting. Using Bugzilla confuses the heck out of me, but mostly because I don't do it very often!
There are many good ideas in this list. I have one small idea re: bugzilla -- is it possible to make browsing bugs more transparent (like a link on the sidebar)? I only just discovered that it's possible to look at bugs by category, component or keyword rather than search, and for the hapless newbie who is nonetheless sometimes interested in looking (at) bugs to see what's going on (like me) it would help. First rule of taxonomies: everyone describes stuff differently, so browse is useful :)
-- phoebe