Thank you for the update! On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, this is an update on the work we in the Collaboration team are > doing. Our focus is on cross-wiki notifications and other back-end > improvements to that system. > > Our long-term goals are to make various improvements to the Notification > system. > > Notifications are at the core of many different on-wiki activities. > Making notifications easy to find and use can help those processes. We > are focusing our immediate plans on supporting cross-wiki > notifications. These will help editors stay informed about the changes > they care about on every Wikimedia project on which they work. This is > especially important for the editors who work on more than one wiki. > Examples include if you upload to Commons, curate on Wikidata, or edit > in two or more languages. > > The team has spent the last few weeks researching the existing and > proposed features. This has included examining existing tools such as > Crosswatch. We've been considering the problems of: > > * technical performance (scaling the requests across 800+ wikis), > * user preferences (both existing and desired), > * user interface design possibilities (how it should work), > * how to release an initial, user-testable version for feedback and > improvement, and > * how to measure the impact of the project (reducing the time it takes > to process a notification). > > We are also doing user research via 1-on-1 interviews. In these we ask > active editors about their current notification usage and pain-points. > Using a prototype we are evolving, we get feedback on directions to > take the design. > > == Details and further reading == > You can read more about the technical details at: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Cross-wiki_notifications > . > > Some of the new backend improvements to Echo: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107823 ("Rewrite > EchoNotificationFormatter") and linked tasks. > > User preference options are: > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117670 ("Define Cross-wiki > Notifications settings") > > User interface design possibilities cover several questions. For > example, how should cross-wiki notifications look within the pop-up? > How and when should we add enhancements to the Special:Notifications > page to filter things? We are drafting and discussing these in: > > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114357 (Clarifications to the > currently confusing "primary/secondary" link, and proposed future > enhancements) > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114356 (Bundled notifications) > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115264 (Controlling notification > 'volume' based on the type or location) > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115845 (Clearer use of the > notification badges (coloured number in personal toolbar)) > * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115316 (Better organization of > the Special:Notifications page) > > Note: Most of these are not part of the cross-wiki notifications > feature. We won't for sure roll all these out together with the main > change. > > We started user research at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114086 > and it continues at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116741 . (Note: > You can sign-up as a volunteer at https://wikimedia.org/research .) > > A user-testable release is still just in planning. We decided on a > Beta Feature on each wiki as the most scalable and least confusing of > all the do-able options. Read our plans in > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114237 ("Present cross-wiki > notifications as a beta feature to users"). This will help users to > try the feature anytime, disabling it if it interferes with their work > in some context, and easily suggest how the tool could be improved. > > There is no system for users having or setting cross-wiki preferences. > Waiting to building this would take a long time. For now, we plan to > let you enable the Beta Feature at each wiki on which you want to test > it. This will let you have a small-scale Beta Feature that you can all > try out. We will be able to discover bugs, edge-cases, iterate more, > and get even more feedback. Later, when we know what features you > need, we can build such a cross-wiki preferences system (including the > task linked above). > > Whilst you wait, we would love to hear your feedback on the above. > What comments, what design ideas, and what technical concerns do you > have? Please tell us on the linked tasks if you can. > > I'll send further updates, when the planned Beta Feature is about to be > ready. > > On behalf of the Collaboration team, thank you to everyone who has > given your help already. > > -- > Nick Wilson / Quiddity > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel>
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