On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
I think that this whatcanido whatever .org sites just sound more cool :) or I don't know why mozilla wouldn't use mozilla.org as well > 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. > I don't think he needs to put much effort into it - the code exist and is on open source, it's not meant to replace these extensions, it's meant to create yet another way to lure more people :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
