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 :)

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