Thank you Yuvi for putting efforts in new contributor outreach!
Let me plug in the thoughts and discussions we have got in a similar
direction so far. Back in January Ross (CCed) had the same idea and we
started discussing until I enourage him to move to wiki pages & here for
further details. Also, let's start applying the lessons learned with the
'Wikitech contributors' debate.
On 04/07/2013 03:11 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
I came across http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/ today, and
proceeded to register whatcanidoforwikipedia.org :)
Why not doing exactly the same but on mediawiki.org directly? All the
effort put on promoting a brand new site could be put instead in
promoting mediawiki.org in a new, fresh way.
Why not use the technologies we are already developing? like
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour
We would become their users, we would help testing and improving them.
The effort you are putting contributing code on this new project could
be put instead in patches to those extensions, better CSS and look &
feel for our site, etc. Producing and eating our own dog food.
Why not improving mediawiki.org pages making them friendly to newcomers
instead of creating content from scratch that would point to the same
mediawiki.org pages that we would need to improve anyway?
For example, no matter how nice your page on Lua is, the users clicking
it would still land on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua ....
Thoughts on what to put there? I cal already think of the following
languages to put up:
1. PHP
2. JS
3. Lua
4. Python
5. Java
6. Obj-C
7. 'Design'
This recollection is exactly the same work we are calling "One ontology"
at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors#One_ontology
Why not creating
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/One_ontology ,
move this list there and continue defining more categories on that page?
I'll start a wiki page sometime to collect content, and then spend
some time writing the code - we can even fork the original site's code
and use it.
Yes please, start a wiki page documenting this effort that I hope
becomes the same effort that we want to put in mediawiki.org. URL suggested:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/What_can_I_do
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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