In my perspective, there should be two things on this list: * Invitations to test new features. "Testing" in this case is something that can be done by somebody who is an end user who has an "early adopter" character and who is curious about technologies, but who is not necessarily a developer. The new feature must be set up online somewhere: in labs, as an opt-in feature in an existing Wikipedia or Wikisource, in translatewiki.net or some other site. It usually shouldn't be needed to install software on your own computer to test features announced here - installing MediaWiki is too hard for non-developer users. Announcement of Visual Editor features deployments in Meta is a good example of this.
* Announcements about new features that break existing gadgets, templates, features or content in existing projects, and require change in their code. The change is not necessarily something that the ambassador can do himself or understand completely, because the ambassador is not necessarily a coder, but it must be something that the ambassador must be able to convey to the techie types in his community. The announcement of the $.browser deprecation by Krinkle a few days ago is a good example of this. Of course, there can be other opinions. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2012/11/10 Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]>: > Thanks for being on this list and helping communicate about technology > on Wikimedia sites. > > What kinds of discussions or notifications would you like to have on > this list? Or in general, if you don't think they quite belong here? > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
