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