Great work and a nice process. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Danny Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist > Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes! > > 634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and > voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and > endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10 proposals > with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's backlog of > projects to evaluate and address. > > And here's the top 10: > > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) > #2. Improved diff compare screen (104) > #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules (87) > #4. Cross-wiki watchlist (84) > #4. Numerical sorting in categories (84) > #6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages (78) > #7. Pageview Stats tool (70) > #8. Global cross-wiki user talk page (66) > #9. Improve the "copy and paste detection" bot (63) > #10. Add a user watchlist (62) > > You can see the whole list here, with links to all the proposals and > Phabricator tickets: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results > > So what happens now? > > Over the next couple weeks, Community Tech will do a preliminary > assessment on the top 10, and start figuring out what's involved. We need > to have a clear definition of the problem and proposed solution, and begin > to understand the technical, design and community challenges for each one. > > Some wishes in the top 10 seem relatively straightforward, and we'll be > able to dig in and start working on them in the new year. Some wishes are > going to need a lot of investigation and discussion with other developers, > product teams, designers and community members. There may be some that are > just too big or too hard to do at all. > > Our analysis will look at the following factors: > > * SUPPORT: Overall support for the proposal, including the discussions on > the survey page. This will take the neutral and oppose votes into account. > Some of these ideas also have a rich history of discussions on-wiki and in > bug tickets. For some wishes, we'll need more community discussion to help > define the problem and agree on proposed solutions. > > * FEASIBILITY: How much work is involved, including existing blockers and > dependencies. > > * IMPACT: Evaluating how many projects and contributors will benefit, > whether it's a long-lasting solution or a temporary fix, and the > improvement in contributors' overall productivity and happiness. > > * RISK: Potential drawbacks, conflicts with other developers' work, and > negative effects on any group of contributors. > > Our plan for 2016 is to complete as many of the top 10 wishes as we can. > For the wishes in the top 10 that we can't complete, we're responsible for > investigating them fully and reporting back on the analysis. > > So there's going to be a series of checkpoints through the year, where > we'll present the current status of the top 10 wishes. The first will be at > the Wikimedia Developer Summit in the first week of January. We're planning > to talk about the preliminary assessment there, and then share it more > widely. > > If you're eager to follow the whole process as we go along, we'll be > documenting and keeping notes in two places: > > On Meta: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Top 10: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10 > > On Phabricator: Community Wishlist Survey board: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/ > > Finally: What about the other 97 proposals? > > There were a lot of good and important proposals that didn't happen to get > quite as many support votes, and I'm sure everybody has at least one that > they were rooting for. Again, the whole list is here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results > > We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if they > can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed interest in. > We're also going to work with the Developer Relations team to see if some > of these could be taken on by volunteer developers. > > It's also possible that Community Tech could take on a small-scale, > well-defined proposal below the top 10, if it doesn't interfere with our > commitments to the top 10 wishes. > > So there's lots of work to be done, and hooray, we have a whole year to do > it. If this process turns out to be a success, then we plan to do another > survey at the end of 2016, to give more people a chance to participate, and > bring more great ideas. > > For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in the > survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank you > very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're > excited about the work ahead of us. > > We'd also like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland's Technischer > Communitybedarf team -- they came up with this whole survey process, and > they've been working successfully on lots of community wishes since their > first survey in 2013. > > You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News > > Thanks! > > Danny Horn > Product Manager, WMF Community Tech > > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
