[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-28 Thread Brian Wolff
While i'm sure there is always more that can be done in terms of attracting new devs, i don't think that's really where we have the problem. We have lots of interested people. Enwiki is basically a huge captive audience of interested people. I think the problem lies more in the developer

[Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-28 Thread Jay prakash
Hi everyone, Andre, It is really good to see a major transformation in recent years. Since I am part of this transformation, I can say that it is already really going in a very good direction. But few things to note: 1. *Lack of staff*: WMF's Developer Advocacy has 6 staff for the globe. I had a

[Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-28 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 13:30 +, Inductiveload wrote: > [5] Developer Advocacy is a team that exists, but at least in my > personal experience, I have never actually encountered it, except for > bug wrangling. If you're interested in what that (my) team is doing, I recommend checking out

[Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-28 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2022-01-01 at 07:41 +0100, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > There is "code stewardship program" and its goal is to find owners > for components that don't have an owner (or undeploy them). Sometimes > it's successful, sometimes it's not. I have been asking for a > maintainer for FlaggedRevs for

[Wikitech-l] Talk to the Search Platform Team—February 2nd, 2022

2022-01-28 Thread Trey Jones
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.! Feel free to add your