On Monday, August 11, 2014 at 5:18 AM, svetlana wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 21:42, Chris Keating wrote: > > > > > > I think the most helpful thing would be to not attempt to start wars, and > > > particularly not on behalf of anyone or against individuals. We are all on > > > the same side here: trying to make the projects (and the project > > > interfaces, as a part of that) better. That includes, for instance, trying > > > out a new way of viewing photographs. > > > > > > I assume of course and as always that you send your message from a place > > > of > > > also wanting the projects to be better and more usable. But it is hard to > > > see how anything you suggest above gets us there. > > > > > > > > > > > I agree with everything Phoebe's said. > > > > "That includes, for instance, trying out a new way of viewing photographs." > do you guys "try out" on the whole userbase? > that's not how people "try" things > it's not what actually happened wither > > maybe say something more like "hi people, in the background we are writing a > lot of wonderful code which will be used for refreshing the entire website in > the long term" > > "we're especially looking at how we fail to match project mission - we're > people, we are making mistakes!" > > "we're adding edit interface to media viewer ASAP and let everything else > burn until we do that" > > etc etc > > and don't shy out, you ARE empowering the community already ;) > > including jquery into list of what gadgets can use is already a huge plus, > but i barely know any gadgets which use it > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper uses > parsoidObj from i think parsoid itself > this potential was never exposed to developers, not to mention end users > this software is very scriptable and flexible > >
Sorry, are you referring to the potential of that gadget, or Parsoid? Parsoid exposes a public API at, http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/ which is documented at, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/API and the output is specified at, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec A list of known users is available at, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Users and more are actively encouraged. If there’re any misconceptions, let’s clear them up. > > the world picture is ugly and awkward and the superprotected scandal is > special as 1 staff didnt even know about this decision. need better > documenting. delays > mistakes. > > what i get from working with people is that one needs to make small steps, > carefully, and take notes; otherwise big steps may be taken in wrong direction > and document things, go screaming and kicking, I did it! for every step made > this way people know what is going on > > please keep working on documenting what on earth you're doing exactly, in > public > it should be the base of the entire team > are you doing planning in your head? design? ;) definitely not > put it onto a public wiki, collaborate out in the open > > svetlana > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
