(and this is my current thinking for an experiment in mobile - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85815 - feel free to move conversation over there if this interests you)
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
I think in my spare time I'll write a patch to test easter eggs in the console out in the mobile world and see if we get any bites (bites being phabricator patches/new users on bug reports etc). Will report back any findings.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Jon Robson wrote:
Thoughts?
Adding easter eggs sounds like a fairly strange recruitment tactic, but I don't see any harm in trying it out and seeing what happens. It's not totally clear to me what problem we're trying to solve here (if any). It's also not completely clear to me whether you want to recruit for the Wikimedia Foundation specifically or for the Wikimedia movement. Depending on the specifics, certain solutions might be more or less appropriate.
I think the best thing for recruiting for MediaWiki (the open source project) is the extraction portion of the Librarization https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki project. Breaking MediaWiki into parts will get it used in more places and the more people that rely on it the more people will contribute to it. Making reusable PHP libraries as opposed to services is doubly good at getting contributions because the people that will be integrating with them will also be PHP developers so they'll be reasonably quickly able to contribute.
My expertise doesn't really extend beyond the open source project so I won't guess at ways to recruit for the movement or the foundation.
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