On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > You're correct, as far as I know. I can't/won't speak for Danny about the product roadmap (I'm sure he will jump in here again), but one component of what's planned is indeed support for these so-called "bureaucratic procedures". I did some initial research before Wikimania (still-drafty wikipage report[1], internal presentation[2]), and Danny incorporated some of this into his Wikimania presentation.[3]
I've heard of several other components from the team, but "workflows" is definitely part of it. Thanks to you, Pine, Risker and others for the good-faith assessments, btw. J 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Community_process_workflow_interviews_(June_2015) 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Flow_workflow_interviews_-_initial_findings_June_2015.pdf 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:User(s)_Talk(ing)_-_Wikimania_2015.pdf > -- > -bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
