Le 05/12/13 11:28, Alex Brollo a écrit : > Users are very confused and worried any time a new version of wiki software > is launched and tested, and some major or minor bug comes invariably out. > > A clear message using central sitenotice, with links to doc pages listing > the changes at different levels of detail and to their talk pages to > discuss them and to alert for bugs, is mandatory IMHO. Tech news are > largely insufficient; evidence of work in progress should be clearly > visible into all pages of interested projects. It's a basic matter of > Wikilove.
Hello Alex, The large majority of the 500 millions of users browsing our sites don't care about software updates. That is maybe appealing to a few thousands user at most. So I would prefer we do not annoy 9 times the population of France :-D Those interested can look at: WMF deployment calendar: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployment Roadmap of MediaWiki core deployments: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap Whenever a new version is pushed, a script generate an exhaustive list of changes being deployed at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf5 The link being reachable from the Roadmap page above. Finally there is the very useful wikitech-ambassadors mailing list which is used to reach out to the community whenever a big new feature is landing in (ie change of the search backend, OAuth, HTTPS ..). That is worth a read :-] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
