Tim Starling wrote:
On 04/04/12 18:27, Svip wrote:
My NaturalLanguageList extension[1] has been
queued for code review
since March 2010.[2] And I still believe WMF wikis like Wiktionary
and Commons would greatly benefit from such an extension. At least
until the Lua-wikicode thing gets worked out.
I think it's pretty likely that the Lua feature will be live before
NaturalLanguageList gets looked at again. NaturalLanguageList was not
sufficiently inspiring to get included in the roadmap.
Which roadmap?
Petr Bena wrote:
Yes, in past it worked. I don't know what is
broken now, but it
apparently doesn't work anymore.
WMF basically hired every MediaWiki developer with a significant
amount of motivation and community trust, and then assigned
interesting projects to them all. The senior developers who used to
mentor community members and review contributed extensions now mentor
teams of employees and review code written internally.
s/interesting //
The project needs to (purportedly) advance a keyword from the list here:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Keywords> in order to gain Wikimedia staff
time, from what I can tell.
"20% time" is an attempt to correct broader
related trends, but
perhaps we need a more project-oriented approach within our 20% time
policy in order to encourage mentoring and start the pipeline of
contributed extensions moving again.
I asked about this "policy" a few months ago:
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058665.html>.
Rob never replied and the thread died. There's a difference between having a
page on
MediaWiki.org and having a policy. From what I've seen, it's mostly
the former, though I'd be thrilled if someone can prove me wrong.
MZMcBride