On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As for dates and how many / which devs will be
assigned to it I can't say,
but it all ties in with just about every other "new editor retention"
project. (For instance MoodBar's comments need a better way to get replies
and notify the original poster about it.)
Absolutely. We're currently wrapping up work on the feedback
dashboard, which will then go into maintenance mode for a while. After
that (probably ~mid-January) we'll tackle the new page creation /
triage work that we've committed to do.
We had originally planned to handle identity (user profiles /
surfacing basic reputational info) as the next big area of work. But
my bias is to re-jiggle that and tackle messaging/notifications next,
because as you say it factors into so many problems, including what
we've done so far with the FB dashboard, as well as bottom-up efforts
by the community to recruit and help new users.
This may mean building on the LQT codebase, but there are probably
some quick wins in notification that we can get without going all the
way.
"Next" though would likely still mean no sooner than March/April. Any
help is as always appreciated.
Erik
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