Extremely cool move, thank you! Rupert
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 18:31 Ilana Fried <ifr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > My name is Ilana, and I'm the product manager for the Community Tech team. > We’re excited to share an update on the Community Tech 2020 Wishlist Survey > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020>. This > will > be our fifth annual Community Wishlist Survey, and for this year, we’ve > decided to take a different approach. In the past, we've invited people to > write proposals for any features or fixes that they'd like to see, and the > Community Tech team has addressed the top ten wishes with the most support > votes. This year, we're just going to focus on the *non-Wikipedia content > projects* (i.e. Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Commons, Wikisource, > Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews), and we're > only going to address the top five wishes from this survey. This is a big > departure from the typical process. In the following year (2021), we’ll > probably return to the traditional structure. > > So, why this change? We’ve been following the same format for years — and, > generally, it has lots of benefits. We build great tools, provide useful > improvements, and have an impact on diverse communities. However, the > nature of the format tends to prioritize the largest project (Wikipedia). > This makes it harder to serve smaller projects, and many of their wishes > never make it onto the wishlist. As a community-focused team, we want to > support *all* projects. Thus, for 2020, we want to shine a light on > non-Wikipedia projects. > > Furthermore, we’ll be accepting five wishes. Over the years, we’ve taken on > larger wishes (like Global Preferences > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences> or Who > Wrote That > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Who_Wrote_That_tool>), > which are awesome projects. At the same time, they tend to be lengthy > endeavors, requiring extra time for research and development. When we > looked at the 2019 wishlist, there were still many unresolved wishes. > Meanwhile, we wanted to make room for the new 2020 wishes. For this reason, > we’ve decided to take on a shortened list, so we can address as many wishes > (new and remaining 2019 wishes > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results>) > as possible. > > Overall, we look forward to this year’s survey. We worked with lots of > folks (engineering, product management, and others) to think about how we > could support underserved projects, all while preserving the dynamic and > open nature of the wishlist. *Please let us know your thoughts > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020>* > related > to this change. In addition, we’ll begin thinking about the guidelines for > this new process, so *we want your feedback > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020>* (on > what sorts of processes/rules we may want to consider). Thank you, and > we’re very curious to see the wishes in November! > > Thanks, > > Ilana Fried > > Product Manager, Community Tech > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
