That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we have
plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make incremental
improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new tool from
scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to texting
Thanks for finding that page. I don't know how much that kind of chat
system would help our editor numbers but it's worth discussing. Any
comments from the Growth and EE teams?
Pine
On Aug 12, 2014 8:10 PM, quiddity pandiculat...@gmail.com wrote:
The pro and cons of web-chat, and some technical
On 08/11/2014 01:17 AM, Pine W wrote:
Would WMF or the volunteer dev community be willing to implement
this? If so, is filing a
Bugzilla bug the best way to get the wheels of progress to turn?
It could potentially be installed on Wikimedia Labs. There are
instructions at
Le Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:55:22 +0100, Matthew Flaschen
mflasc...@wikimedia.org a écrit:
On 08/11/2014 01:17 AM, Pine W wrote:
Would WMF or the volunteer dev community be willing to implement
this? If so, is filing a
Bugzilla bug the best way to get the wheels of progress to turn?
It could
Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions Seb
poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode
interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to
mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the
