Thanks for finding that page. I don't know how much that kind of chat system would help our editor numbers but it's worth discussing. Any comments from the Growth and EE teams?
Pine On Aug 12, 2014 8:10 PM, "quiddity" <pandiculat...@gmail.com> wrote: > The pro and cons of web-chat, and some technical options are collated at: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Live_Chat_System > (especially the 2nd-to-last section, for "Why not IRC?") > IRC makes followup discussion, or time-delayed discussion, too difficult, > if the user doesn't use their identical username, and state their > home-wiki. Also, it shows IPs if users don't obtain a cloak first. > > However, just for informational purposes, here are links for easy > comparison: > https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/test > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#test > ( the default client uses http://www.qwebirc.org/ ) > > HTH, > Quiddity > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we have >> plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make incremental >> improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new tool from >> scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to texting >> and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie user >> experience. >> >> Pine >> On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions >>> Seb >>> poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode >>> interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to >>> mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the >>> lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and >>> people >>> who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever you >>> want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EE mailing list >> e...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > e...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > >
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