Tim Starling wrote: > On 04/04/12 18:27, Svip wrote: >> My NaturalLanguageList extension[1] has been queued for code review >> since March 2010.[2] And I still believe WMF wikis like Wiktionary >> and Commons would greatly benefit from such an extension. At least >> until the Lua-wikicode thing gets worked out. > > I think it's pretty likely that the Lua feature will be live before > NaturalLanguageList gets looked at again. NaturalLanguageList was not > sufficiently inspiring to get included in the roadmap.
Which roadmap? > Petr Bena wrote: >> Yes, in past it worked. I don't know what is broken now, but it >> apparently doesn't work anymore. > > WMF basically hired every MediaWiki developer with a significant > amount of motivation and community trust, and then assigned > interesting projects to them all. The senior developers who used to > mentor community members and review contributed extensions now mentor > teams of employees and review code written internally. s/interesting // The project needs to (purportedly) advance a keyword from the list here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Keywords> in order to gain Wikimedia staff time, from what I can tell. > "20% time" is an attempt to correct broader related trends, but > perhaps we need a more project-oriented approach within our 20% time > policy in order to encourage mentoring and start the pipeline of > contributed extensions moving again. I asked about this "policy" a few months ago: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-March/058665.html>. Rob never replied and the thread died. There's a difference between having a page on MediaWiki.org and having a policy. From what I've seen, it's mostly the former, though I'd be thrilled if someone can prove me wrong. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
