Yes and no on the first point. Aggregation tools would be helpful. Admittedly it's rare to have discussions spill into so many venues, so ROI is questionable on an investment like that.
On more structured discussions, yes, those could be made easier to handle. Maybe it would be better to handle the easier cases first. I'm with you in looking forward to hearing plans for more details. (Maybe there can be a live discussion about this at WikiConference USA, with remote participation as an option?) Pine On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/4/15, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Re-reading the original email, it sounds to me like Flow is being put > into > > maintenance mode, not killed. It also sounds to me like the resources > that > > were being invested in Flow are going to be redirected to "the curation, > > collaboration, and admin processes that take place on a variety of pages. > > Many of these processes use complex workarounds -- templates, categories, > > transclusions, and lots of instructions -- that turn blank wikitext talk > > pages into structured workflows..." > > > > As those of us who have spent a lot of time with these workflows know, > they > > can be a time-consuming pain. (Does anyone else remember trying to track > > the discussion about the MediaViewer deployments to Commons, DEWP and > ENWP > > over however many dozens of separate pages, at least three wikis, and > > multiple email threads?) > > I seriously doubt any form of technology will solve the problem of > independent groups with overlapping interests discussing things in > multiple venues. > > My reading of the original email is that they want to work on things > that have rather fixed bureaucratic procedures (e.g. Discussions about > what content to delete). Relatively free-form discussion across many > locations, seems like the opposite of that imo. I would love to hear > in more detail what the team concretely plans to work on, although I > imagine that's still in the process of being planned. > > -- > -bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
