I think in my spare time I'll write a patch to test easter eggs in the console out in the mobile world and see if we get any bites (bites being phabricator patches/new users on bug reports etc). Will report back any findings.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:30 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jon Robson wrote: >> >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. > > > > I think the best thing for recruiting for MediaWiki (the open source > project) is the extraction portion of the Librarization > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Library_infrastructure_for_MediaWiki> > project. Breaking MediaWiki into parts will get it used in more places and > the more people that rely on it the more people will contribute to it. > Making reusable PHP libraries as opposed to services is doubly good at > getting contributions because the people that will be integrating with them > will also be PHP developers so they'll be reasonably quickly able to > contribute. > > My expertise doesn't really extend beyond the open source project so I > won't guess at ways to recruit for the movement or the foundation. > > Nik > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
