(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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- 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
