Hi everyone!
I think that there are two categories of developers now:
1) Wikimedia developers deal with Wikimedia tasks of running Wikipedia and
all other projects
2) Independent developers which use MediaWiki for their needs. I think that
not much of us even know that wikitech website exist. :)
IMO stuff related to inner projects of Wikimedia foundation should be
located on wikitech. Manuals that are related to MediaWiki as a software
and its extensions should live on
. No Wikimedia-specific
materials here.
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Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I have been drafting a proposal to attract new
contributors, help them
settle in, and connect them to interesting tasks. It turns out that many of
these problems are not unique to new contributors. We suffer them as well
and we are just used to them.
The proposal has evolved into a deeper restructuring of our community
spaces. We're still drafting it, but a round of wider feedback is welcome
before opening the official RFC at
https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Requests_for_comment/**
Wikitech_contributors<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_commen…
In summary:
*
wikitech.wikimedia.org would become the one and only site for our open
source software contributors, powered by semantic software and an ontology
of categories shared across wiki pages, Bugzilla and hopefully Gerrit.
* Semantic user profiles would identify interests, project membership and
preferences so users could get notifications about specific topics.
* Nodes would automatically structure links to the key information about a
specific topic: wiki pages, events, news, projects, bug reports, Gerrit
changesets, related contributors, and people interested.
* All project teams, whoever is in them, would have a standard way to
report goals, members, tasks and updates.
The proposal includes a draft plan for a first iteration, including
contracting out some software development and redesigning part of wikitech
and
mediawiki.org.
Your feedback is welcome at the discussion page. I will be consolidating
there any feedback received here or through other channels. The official
RFC should follow pretty soon, maybe next week.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/…
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