Last year there was an attempt to sort of do this (mostly by extending the word "developer" to mean new things). Largely those types of people didnt attend (although there were a few exceptions), however I remember being left wondering if they did attend, what would they do? It seems to me most sessions were about architecture design decisions that actually didnt affect anyone not working on the code (ie we were going to make the user visible feature either way, the question was do we use method x or method y in the backend). With that in mind. Otoh, its entirely possible that some of the sessions i didnt attend were more applicable to these groups.
With that in mind are you proposing the focus of event also change? Or do you think that these groups would be interested in it as is? -- Brian On Thursday, September 1, 2016, 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
