Thanks Danny, it's nice to see these initiatives being analyzed and options for them being considered actively.
Pine On Jan 20, 2016 5:37 PM, "Danny Horn" <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We've posted the Community Tech team's first status report on our progress > with the Community Wishlist Survey, and you're invited to come and check it > out: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_1 > > In November and December, we invited active contributors to Wikimedia > projects to propose, discuss and vote on the features and fixes that they > most want to see. 634 people participated in the survey, voting on 107 > proposals. > > Our team has committed to investigating and responding to the top 10 > wishes. In many cases, our team will be designing and building tools > ourselves, or collaborating with other teams and volunteers who are working > in that area. For the wishes that we can't build this year -- because it's > too big for our team, or there's a problem that we can't solve -- then we > can at least offer open discussion on the problem, and detailed > documentation explaining what we've learned, so the information can be used > by other developers in the future. > > We've done a preliminary assessment of the top 10, which is described in > the status report. As of right now (mid-January), the two items that we're > actively working on are #1) Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine, and > #7) Pageview Stats tool. Why are we working on those two and not the > others? Check out the status report for all the answers. > > I'm going to post the quick overview of the top 10 wishes here. Each of > these wishes is discussed in detail on the status report page. > > 1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine: Currently in progress, > working with a community developer and the Internet Archive. This is one of > the two projects we're actively working on now (mid-January). > > 2. Improved diff compare screen: Needs investigation and community > discussion to define the problems that we want to solve. > > 3. Central repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules: Needs > underlying technical work that's currently under discussion by another > team. > > 4. Cross-wiki watchlist: Needs technical investigation on the existing > Crosswatch tool, and the Collaboration team's cross-wiki notifications. > > 5. Numerical sorting in categories: Investigation is underway. There are a > couple potential solutions that we need to figure out. > > 6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages: Currently talking with > Wikidata about using structured metadata to solve the underlying problem. > > 7. Pageview Stats tool: Currently talking with the Analytics team about > their new pageview API. Needs some community discussion to define the > front-end spec. This is one of the two projects we're actively working on > now (mid-January), because the Analytics team is eager to use the new API > that they've developed. > > 8. Global cross-wiki talk page: Needs community discussion to define the > product. > > 9. Improve copy and paste detection bot: Need to work with volunteer > developers to define scope on improving the existing Plagiabot. > > 10. Add a user watchlist: We've heard significant pushback about the > vandal-fighting use case, because of the risk of enabling harassment. > Currently investigating an opt-in version that would be useful for mentors, > classes, editathons and WikiProjects. > > Here's the status report link again, for lots more information: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_1 > > Our team is really excited about the work that we'll get to do this year, > and we're looking forward to talking and working with you as we go along. > > Thanks, > > Danny Horn > Product Manager > WMF - Community Tech > User:DannyH (WMF) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
