I was thinking more for the movement and specifically curious if this has ever been attempted in the past. If it hasn't it seems like something we should try. On 3 Jan 2015 20:30, "MZMcBride" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jon Robson wrote: > >Recently on https://developer.mozilla.org/ I noticed an easter egg > >when you pop open the JavaScript console. > > > ><snip> > >"Interested in having a direct impact on hundreds of millions of users? > >Join Mozilla, and become part of a global community that’s helping to > >build a brighter future for the Web." > ><snip> > > > >I'm curious how successful this is but I wonder if we did the same > >whether we might see some new contributors popping up? > > Vaguely related: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T22281> ("MediaWiki > needs more easter eggs"). > > >Why don't we have a similar message linking to our mailing list / > >phabricator instance / mediawiki.org homepage? > > We have a "Developers" link at the bottom of MediaWiki-generated pages > (index.php?title=) that points to > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_contribute>. > > There's also talk of building a dev.wikimedia.org (cf. > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67074>), though I'm still not sold on > the virtue of creating yet another portal for developers and other > tech-minded people. Additional discussion is here: > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Dev.wikimedia.org>. > > >Thoughts? > > Adding easter eggs sounds like a fairly strange recruitment tactic, but I > don't see any harm in trying it out and seeing what happens. It's not > totally clear to me what problem we're trying to solve here (if any). It's > also not completely clear to me whether you want to recruit for the > Wikimedia Foundation specifically or for the Wikimedia movement. Depending > on the specifics, certain solutions might be more or less appropriate. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
