Re: [Wikitech-l] Heads-up: WMF engineering process improvement meetings

2011-07-08 Thread Alec Conroy
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I might say that one more point to focus on specifically is to how to leverage volunteer development (this is hinted at in some of your five points). There are _a lot_ of people who are capable of coding in PHP and who are

[Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Alec Conroy
The recent elections showed us that language issues and translation are something we have to take very seriously from now on. As a first step towards improving communication, it seems like we should get an idea of which users speak which languages? We could directly ask them to tell us, but upon

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Alec Conroy
privacy concerns) Alec On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote: We could directly ask them to tell us, but upon reflection, the information is already hidden in our database

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Alec Conroy
I think I can build you something if you give me appropiate values for the above definition. Cheers Excellent-- so striking while the iron is hot-- I see that [[Special:Statistics]] defines active as edited within the last 30 days.I'm open to whoever many users we can realistically get

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Alec Conroy
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Alec Conroy wrote:   We could directly ask them to tell us, but upon reflection, the   information is already hidden in our database.  A multilingual user is   one that actively edits two projects of different languages

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can I get data to map our linguistic interconnectedness?

2011-06-15 Thread Alec Conroy
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 June 2011 17:34, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote: The important point of doing this would be: 1) to identify those users with unique language skills and recruit them Recruit them to do what