I like the concept. I wonder, if instead of having a standalone dev summit, it would make sense to have this broadly scoped conference be combined with or adjacent to Wikimania.
Pine On Sep 1, 2016 10:12, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote: > The last couple years we've done a big MediaWiki Dev Summit in January, > around the time of the Wikimedia Foundation all-hands meeting. Invitations > have been fairly broad to known developers, but there's a very strong > feeling that newbies, non-technical people, and in general *the people > MediaWiki is created and maintained for* are not welcome. > > I think we should change this. > > I would really like a broader MediaWiki Dev Summit that asks our users to > participate, and asks "developers" to interact with them to prioritize and > work on things that really matter to them. > > I want template authors, Lua module authors, template users, power editors, > folks working on the lines of defense for vandalism patrol and copyvio > checking. I want people with opinions on discussion systems. I want people > who have been editing for years and have experience with what works and > what doesn't. I want people who wish they could edit but have a bad > experience when they try, and want to share that with us so we can help > make it better. > > Thoughts? > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
