Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
Kozuch, Others have responded to many of your other points. I just wanted to help with two things: On 04/25/2012 02:49 PM, Jan Kučera wrote: Hi, yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi Oliver, the development progress definitely is very very slow. As a comparison, did you watch how the web front-end of Facebook changes within the last year? It was completely overhauled about three times... You may object Facebook is commercial and not comparable to Wikimedia, but this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-29 Thread Brandon Harris
On Apr 29, 2012, at 1:04 AM, Jan Kučera wrote: Hi Oliver, the development progress definitely is very very slow. As a comparison, did you watch how the web front-end of Facebook changes within the last year? It was completely overhauled about three times... You may object Facebook is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
Jan; we get new features fairly regularly :). At the moment we're working on two new pieces of software - the Article Feedback Form, v5, and New Page Triage (a replacement for Special:NewPages). After that we're moving on to a proper notifications system to allow better communication and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Sumana writes: so if you could help me in alerting the extension's author to those comments, that would be great. Thanks! Jan Kučera writes: yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-25 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi, yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even nearing deployment). WMF should invest in new features. I am not a dev and thus can not contribute any code. Kozuch 2012/4/25 Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-24 Thread Bod Notbod
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 18:41, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, how do we want to work on editor retention if we lack social features at all??? These go in the right direction: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Improving_our_platform

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-23 Thread Captain Harlock
hi, Please do thank the journalist concerned. I agree with the line of reasoning.But I sway away from one of his conclusions. So I think the answer is that Wikipedia needs to be more social. It needs a different kind of moderation. And it needs more mechanisms for positive feedback.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-21 Thread Mono
Tom, has a reputable news source actually verified this? Even Wikipedia editors know that HuffPost isn't reliable... On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On 16 April 2012 18:41, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, how do we want to work on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-17 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:44:48 +0100, Thomas Morton wrote: Whether they also want to socialise with other editors is somewhat a secondary consideration/distraction. I disagree. A lot. Of course that is your prerogative. But I think in holding that view you've critically lost sight of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-17 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: But perhaps it would be useful to suggest some specific social features that you'd want - that might help focus the discussion. I'm not sure that it makes sense to talk about adding social features in the