Quick update -- we now have more than 2,000 sign-ups. I figure that's
a good base to work with (or if it isn't, there are bigger problems),
so I've turned down the banner to about 20% and will disable it soon.
Expect the frantic sign-up rate on MW.org to drop.
You may have seen first bits of code
Erik - thanks for the update. Exciting to see 2000+ signups.
Looking forward to seeing some good code happen in this challenge!
Alolita
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Quick update -- we now have more than 2,000 sign-ups. I figure that's
a good base to
Official judging call coming soon. As you can see, we'll need all the
help we can get -- but we're going to sort out what that entails
first.
--g
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Alolita Sharma
alolita.sha...@gmail.com wrote:
Erik - thanks for the update. Exciting to see 2000+ signups.
Erik Moeller wrote:
Quick update -- we now have more than 2,000 sign-ups. I figure that's
a good base to work with (or if it isn't, there are bigger problems),
so I've turned down the banner to about 20% and will disable it soon.
Expect the frantic sign-up rate on MW.org to drop.
You may
That's a lot! :)
I wonder how many of them will proceed to code something useful and
submit it. And how good will it be.
I wonder that too. :)
An issue I see with the challenge is that it encourages the cathedral
model,* so we lose the opportunity of training them as they go (eg.
point
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
That's a lot! :)
I wonder how many of them will proceed to code something useful and
submit it. And how good will it be.
An issue I see with the challenge is that it encourages the cathedral
model,* so we lose the
Hey,
Indeed, this is very different from how we traditionally get volunteer
developers involved (by letting them walk into our web of addictive code
and
giving them feedback on their code until they can't imagine doing anything
else ;).
Ah, so that's what happened to me :0
Cheers
--
Jeroen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, so that's what happened to me :0
We call this recruitment by privilege escalation :D . It worked on me
something like 4 times over.
Roan
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ah, so that's what happened to me :0
We call this recruitment by privilege escalation :D . It worked on me
something like 4 times over.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
I think the theory is that some small percentage of contestants will be
interested enough to actually dive in and do research, write code, and ask
people for feedback directly, and those are the people we'd actually want to
Seems like were not the only ones thinking about challenges
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2025241/gnarly-programming-challenges-help-recruit-coders
--tomasz
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Following up, we'd appreciate help with testing
Following up, we'd appreciate help with testing the coding challenge
workflow. This is a DRAFT ONLY -- here's the current draft workflow:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ContestWelcome/Draft_October_2011_Coding_Challenge
Any data you submit through it will be lost, messaging is subject to
Hi folks,
we're attempting, later this week, an experiment in reaching out to
new potential developers (volunteers and paid developers alike) by
means of an online coding challenge. The general idea is that, by
posing interesting challenges, we'll be able to attract interesting
people :-). It's
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