On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > I recently started following mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase on Gerrit, and > quite astonishingly found that nearly all of the 100 most recently updated > changes appear to be owned by WMDE employees (exceptions being one change by > Legoktm and some from L10n-bot). This is not the case, for example, with > mediawiki/core. > While this may be desired by the Wikidata team for corporate reasons, I feel > that encouraging code review by volunteers would empower both Wikidata and > third-party communities with new ways of contributing to the project and > raise awareness of the development team's goals in the long term.
How would you like to see us encourage this more? It is nothing we actively do not want of course. > The messy naming conventions play a role too, i.e. Extension:Wikibase is > supposed to host technical documentation but instead redirects to the > Wikibase portal, with actual documentation split into Extension:Wikibase > Repository and Extension:Wikibase Client, apparently ignoring the fact that > the code is actually developed in a single repository (correct me if I'm > wrong). Just to add some more confusion, there's also Extension:Wikidata > build with no documentation. There are different repositories. They just get merged into one for deployment. > And what about wmde on GitHub with countless creatively-named repos? They > make life even harder for potential contributors. Agreed. Something we want to tackle. > Finally, the ever-changing client-side APIs make gadgets development a pain > in the ass. Agreed but as I said this is going to be painful for a little longer until we have done the UI redesign. After that I want it to be more stable again obviously. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
