(and this is my current thinking for an experiment in mobile -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85815 - feel free to move
conversation over there if this interests you)


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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