Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2016-01-09 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Bill Morrisson wrote: > I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10 > wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes > that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2016-01-08 Thread Bill Morrisson
Hello I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10 wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers need a particular permission for that. Thanks On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of > looking for > > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved. > b) alternative sources for the same fact. > An automated

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread Danny Horn
Henning, If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead links than people willing to replace them. On English Wikipedia, there's

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-17 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > It was fun to participate in the proposal process. I want to stress this sentence! I believe many participants will agree. There are many ways to create a community backlog, and none of them will be perfect. The

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-17 Thread Rachel diCerbo
Really wonderful work, I'm happy to see this list. Thank you to all who participated! On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Lane Rasberry > wrote: > > > It was fun to participate in the proposal process. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-16 Thread Sam Klein
Thanks to all for organizing the survey and for sharing! A lot of these should help people stay in touch on smaller wikis and sibling projects where they are less active (and currently less likely to see pings and messages), so while I also want to see wikisource take over the world, these seem