Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Chad Horohoe
On Aug 17, 2014 6:49 AM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
wrote:

 There are 105 bugs open for Media Viewer.  To my mind that is not a
product
 that is ready to be delivered to 500,000,000 users, delivering  52.5
 billion bugs!  (And that's just the ones we know about!)


MediaWiki itself has 4893 open bugs. Guess we need to start over so we can
write bug-free software.

Except that's not how it works, absolute bug counts are a pretty useless
metric.

-Chad
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Comet styles
yes but mediawiki is a software, not an add-on or as the kids say
these days, an App which is what Media Viewer is. Enforcing
something with more than a 100 bugs (and counting) is indeed not a
very super idea..Fix the bugs or atleast half of them and maybe then
try enforcing them (as WMF ignores community decisions)..

On 8/17/14, Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 On Aug 17, 2014 6:49 AM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
 wrote:

 There are 105 bugs open for Media Viewer.  To my mind that is not a
 product
 that is ready to be delivered to 500,000,000 users, delivering  52.5
 billion bugs!  (And that's just the ones we know about!)


 MediaWiki itself has 4893 open bugs. Guess we need to start over so we can
 write bug-free software.

 Except that's not how it works, absolute bug counts are a pretty useless
 metric.

 -Chad
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Farmbrough
And that is a common community complaint, games communities, social
communities, and content communities.

They all say fix the bugs before working on new stuff.  Developers prefer
working on new stuff, managers prefer working on new stuff. Where's the
kudos from making things bug-free?  But that is what is needed.


On 17 August 2014 13:48, Comet styles cometsty...@gmail.com wrote:

 yes but mediawiki is a software, not an add-on or as the kids say
 these days, an App which is what Media Viewer is. Enforcing
 something with more than a 100 bugs (and counting) is indeed not a
 very super idea..Fix the bugs or atleast half of them and maybe then
 try enforcing them (as WMF ignores community decisions)..

 On 8/17/14, Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  On Aug 17, 2014 6:49 AM, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
  wrote:
 
  There are 105 bugs open for Media Viewer.  To my mind that is not a
  product
  that is ready to be delivered to 500,000,000 users, delivering  52.5
  billion bugs!  (And that's just the ones we know about!)
 
 
  MediaWiki itself has 4893 open bugs. Guess we need to start over so we
 can
  write bug-free software.
 
  Except that's not how it works, absolute bug counts are a pretty useless
  metric.
 
  -Chad
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Pete Forsyth
I think it is also a problem to look at this in terms of bugs. I don't
think you can retrofit good design into something that has a variety of
substantial problems, by merely squashing bugs. You might say that is the
wiki way, but it is widely known that some tasks are better suited than
others to ad hoc collaborative processes.

In this case, we have a broad range of issues:
* does it let the reader know they can help improve the page or upload
another photo
* does it reflect copyright holders' licenses accurately and effectively
* does it adequately respect the privacy of the subjects of photos
* does it reflect a look and feel that we feel OK about and is consistent
with the rest of the software
etc. etc.

Fixing one bug may well lead to other bugs, or negatively impact those
already reported. What is needed, I believe, is a well-facilitated process
to identify the problems and the best solutions. This is not easy to do and
takes time. But I think the WMF has (not for lack of trying) managed to do
a very bad job of that with this software product, and with many software
products in the last few years. That does not mean it is impossible to do
it that way, only that those specific efforts were insufficient.

An example of a design process that DID work well, I believe, is the 2012
rewrite of the Terms of Use. The goals were clearly stated upfront, a
deadline was stated *and then moved* when it was determined that it was too
soon and good work was being done, the discussion was facilitated in a
highly useful way (noting things that are off topic, closing issues as they
are resolved, actively drawing in staff as needed, etc.)

-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]


On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Richard Farmbrough 
rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote:

 And that is a common community complaint, games communities, social
 communities, and content communities.

 They all say fix the bugs before working on new stuff.  Developers prefer
 working on new stuff, managers prefer working on new stuff. Where's the
 kudos from making things bug-free?  But that is what is needed.


 On 17 August 2014 13:48, Comet styles cometsty...@gmail.com wrote:

  yes but mediawiki is a software, not an add-on or as the kids say
  these days, an App which is what Media Viewer is. Enforcing
  something with more than a 100 bugs (and counting) is indeed not a
  very super idea..Fix the bugs or atleast half of them and maybe then
  try enforcing them (as WMF ignores community decisions)..
 
  On 8/17/14, Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.org wrote:
   On Aug 17, 2014 6:49 AM, Richard Farmbrough 
 rich...@farmbrough.co.uk
   wrote:
  
   There are 105 bugs open for Media Viewer.  To my mind that is not a
   product
   that is ready to be delivered to 500,000,000 users, delivering  52.5
   billion bugs!  (And that's just the ones we know about!)
  
  
   MediaWiki itself has 4893 open bugs. Guess we need to start over so we
  can
   write bug-free software.
  
   Except that's not how it works, absolute bug counts are a pretty
 useless
   metric.
  
   -Chad
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Risker
Well, hold on here.


On 17 August 2014 19:55, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think it is also a problem to look at this in terms of bugs. I don't
 think you can retrofit good design into something that has a variety of
 substantial problems, by merely squashing bugs. You might say that is the
 wiki way, but it is widely known that some tasks are better suited than
 others to ad hoc collaborative processes.



Given the current use of bugzilla, which doesn't limit itself to bugs but
also feature requests and enhancements over the base functionality, calling
everything reported using bugzilla a bug is incorrect and inappropriate.



 In this case, we have a broad range of issues:
 * does it let the reader know they can help improve the page or upload
 another photo


The Commons/File pages don't do that, why would you expect this software to
do it?


 * does it reflect copyright holders' licenses accurately and effectively


Agree this is important.  Do you have any evidence that it is any less
accurate than the Commons/File pages?


 * does it adequately respect the privacy of the subjects of photos


The mere fact of the image being used on an article anywhere on a Wikimedia
project suggests that this problem is in the actual usage, not in the
software being used to display more information and detail in the image.
If you believe that this is a serious issue, then it should be addressed
where 100% of readers can see it, not in a subpage viewed only by the
limited number of readers who click on the image. It's not a Media Viewer
problem, it's an image usage problem.


 * does it reflect a look and feel that we feel OK about and is consistent
 with the rest of the software
 etc. etc.


What problems are you seeing here?  Spell it out, rather than making vague
suggestions that there is an issue.




 Fixing one bug may well lead to other bugs, or negatively impact those
 already reported. What is needed, I believe, is a well-facilitated process
 to identify the problems and the best solutions. This is not easy to do and
 takes time. But I think the WMF has (not for lack of trying) managed to do
 a very bad job of that with this software product, and with many software
 products in the last few years. That does not mean it is impossible to do
 it that way, only that those specific efforts were insufficient.



Why is this a Media Viewer issue?  This is a problem for all types of
software on all types of platforms, and is a challenge even for IT
departments hundreds of times the size of the WMF.  I cannot think of any
software I have used in the last 20 years that has not had bugs or
unsatisfactory UI elements or seems to miss a functionality I'd like to
have.  It is unreasonable to hold a comparatively very small organization
to a standard that can't even be met by IT giants.

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Pete Forsyth
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well, hold on here.


 On 17 August 2014 19:55, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:

  I think it is also a problem to look at this in terms of bugs. I don't
  think you can retrofit good design into something that has a variety of
  substantial problems, by merely squashing bugs. You might say that is
 the
  wiki way, but it is widely known that some tasks are better suited than
  others to ad hoc collaborative processes.
 


 Given the current use of bugzilla, which doesn't limit itself to bugs but
 also feature requests and enhancements over the base functionality, calling
 everything reported using bugzilla a bug is incorrect and inappropriate.


While this is true, I have yet to see bugzilla used as a platform for a
design process for Media Viewer, and I don't think I would recommend it.
It's *possible* to use it as a platform for more than mere bugs, and it has
been done before; but I don't think tha'ts what's going on here, or should
go on here.


  In this case, we have a broad range of issues:
  * does it let the reader know they can help improve the page or upload
  another photo
 

 The Commons/File pages don't do that, why would you expect this software to
 do it?


The Commons/File page DOES do that, to the extent that readers have some
familiarity with MediaWiki software and how to find the Edit button. You
may not believe that is significant, but I encounter people on an almost
daily basis who are mystified by Wikipedia, but at least have a basic
understanding what the edit button does, or could allow them to do. It
may not be all readers or even a majority, but it is my very strong belief
-- rooted, perhaps not in rigorous scientific analysis, but in my very
active engagement with non-Wikipedias since 2006 -- that it's the pool of
people who tend to replenish our declining editor pool. A great many of the
100+ students who signed up for the 4 rounds of my online course on editing
Wikipedia, for instance, had accounts that were several years old, but only
had a dozen or so edits.

 * does it reflect copyright holders' licenses accurately and effectively
 

 Agree this is important.  Do you have any evidence that it is any less
 accurate than the Commons/File pages?


That evidence is all over the various RFCs and wiki pages related to this,
and also in Bugzilla I believe, I'll leave it to you to track it down.

 * does it adequately respect the privacy of the subjects of photos
 

 The mere fact of the image being used on an article anywhere on a Wikimedia
 project suggests that this problem is in the actual usage, not in the
 software being used to display more information and detail in the image.
 If you believe that this is a serious issue, then it should be addressed
 where 100% of readers can see it, not in a subpage viewed only by the
 limited number of readers who click on the image. It's not a Media Viewer
 problem, it's an image usage problem.


This point has a lot of nuance in it, and I'm happy to discuss it, but not
here and now. If you want to dig into it, I suggest this as a venue:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Consent -- if you leave a
note there, please {{ping|Peteforsyth}} so I can find it.


  * does it reflect a look and feel that we feel OK about and is
 consistent
  with the rest of the software
  etc. etc.
 

 What problems are you seeing here?  Spell it out, rather than making vague
 suggestions that there is an issue.


I don't personally have a big issue with this one; but it's something
others have brought up. I'm trying to capture the breadth of concerns about
the software here, rather than (as WMF staff keep inaccurately accusing me
and many of my colleagues of doing) saying merely I DON'T LIKE IT.




 
  Fixing one bug may well lead to other bugs, or negatively impact those
  already reported. What is needed, I believe, is a well-facilitated
 process
  to identify the problems and the best solutions. This is not easy to do
 and
  takes time. But I think the WMF has (not for lack of trying) managed to
 do
  a very bad job of that with this software product, and with many software
  products in the last few years. That does not mean it is impossible to do
  it that way, only that those specific efforts were insufficient.
 


 Why is this a Media Viewer issue?  This is a problem for all types of
 software on all types of platforms, and is a challenge even for IT
 departments hundreds of times the size of the WMF.  I cannot think of any
 software I have used in the last 20 years that has not had bugs or
 unsatisfactory UI elements or seems to miss a functionality I'd like to
 have.  It is unreasonable to hold a comparatively very small organization
 to a standard that can't even be met by IT giants.


It is absolutely a problem for all types of software on all types of
platforms. It is a Media Viewer issue because the design and deployment was
executed so badly that it 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-17 Thread Risker
On 17 August 2014 20:25, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:

  Well, hold on here.
 
 
  On 17 August 2014 19:55, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   I think it is also a problem to look at this in terms of bugs. I
 don't
   think you can retrofit good design into something that has a variety of
   substantial problems, by merely squashing bugs. You might say that is
  the
   wiki way, but it is widely known that some tasks are better suited than
   others to ad hoc collaborative processes.
  
 
 
  Given the current use of bugzilla, which doesn't limit itself to bugs but
  also feature requests and enhancements over the base functionality,
 calling
  everything reported using bugzilla a bug is incorrect and
 inappropriate.
 

 While this is true, I have yet to see bugzilla used as a platform for a
 design process for Media Viewer, and I don't think I would recommend it.
 It's *possible* to use it as a platform for more than mere bugs, and it has
 been done before; but I don't think tha'ts what's going on here, or should
 go on here.


Perhaps you should get to know a bit more about bugzilla and its current
usage; of the 104 current reports on Multimedia Viewer, 16 are enhancements
and several others that are currently listed as bugs of varying
importance/urgency are features that don't appear to exist in the
standard format for viewing images or are so badly designed in the File
pages that they're almost impossible to call acceptable in that format,
either.

Someone who is better able to describe the developer functions could better
describe the planned changes from the use of Bugzilla to Phabricator, which
is a more flexible platform that (I understand) is intended to consolidate
several different design/development/improvement/bug reporting platforms
currently in use.  But right now, bugzilla is at least in some cases used
as a platform for the design process of just about everything to do with
MediaWiki, its extensions, and all the other platforms that are in
use/developed by WMF.

Every single type of software used on Wikimedia project sites, as well as
software for other features provided by the WMF, has bugzilla reports.
There are thousands for MediaWiki, the core software of the project.  We
haven't thrown in the towel on it just because it's got lots of bugzilla
reports.




   In this case, we have a broad range of issues:
   * does it let the reader know they can help improve the page or upload
   another photo
  
 
  The Commons/File pages don't do that, why would you expect this software
 to
  do it?
 

 The Commons/File page DOES do that, to the extent that readers have some
 familiarity with MediaWiki software and how to find the Edit button. You
 may not believe that is significant, but I encounter people on an almost
 daily basis who are mystified by Wikipedia, but at least have a basic
 understanding what the edit button does, or could allow them to do. It
 may not be all readers or even a majority, but it is my very strong belief
 -- rooted, perhaps not in rigorous scientific analysis, but in my very
 active engagement with non-Wikipedias since 2006 -- that it's the pool of
 people who tend to replenish our declining editor pool. A great many of the
 100+ students who signed up for the 4 rounds of my online course on editing
 Wikipedia, for instance, had accounts that were several years old, but only
 had a dozen or so edits.


I'm sorry.  How, exactly, do you envision a new editor or reader improving
file pages? There's not very much that can be edited there that isn't going
to cause more problems than it solves. Should they modify the author?
Change the license?   Add (potentially non-existent) categories?  When the
chances of reversion are nearly 100%, it's not necessarily a net positive
to make a big deal about the existence of an edit button.  Media pages
are not really comparable to (written) content pages. I'd rank file pages
as possibly the worst place to suggest that new editors just jump in, with
the possible exception of templates.

snip

 * does it adequately respect the privacy of the subjects of photos
 

 The mere fact of the image being used on an article anywhere on a
Wikimedia
 project suggests that this problem is in the actual usage, not in the
 software being used to display more information and detail in the image.
 If you believe that this is a serious issue, then it should be addressed
 where 100% of readers can see it, not in a subpage viewed only by the
 limited number of readers who click on the image. It's not a Media Viewer
 problem, it's an image usage problem.


This point has a lot of nuance in it, and I'm happy to discuss it, but not
 here and now. If you want to dig into it, I suggest this as a venue:
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Consent -- if you leave a
 note there, please {{ping|Peteforsyth}} so I can find it.


I am at a loss as to why a 

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[Wikimedia-l] Flogging dead horses (was Re: Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-17 Thread Wiki Billinghurst
Are we there yet? This subject has been so done to death, that the corpse
of the dead horse that has been flogged is going to rise as a zombie and
eat out your brains. There is next to no original thought coming through
just verbiage, and it is time that people subjecting the whole list to the
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There is an RFC, there is a process being followed, I invite those who wish
to now comment to use those vehicles and be considerate to those who have
had enough of the subject matter.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Flogging dead horses (was Re: Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-17 Thread geni
On 18 August 2014 04:13, Wiki Billinghurst billinghurstw...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Are we there yet? This subject has been so done to death, that the corpse
 of the dead horse that has been flogged is going to rise as a zombie and
 eat out your brains. There is next to no original thought coming through
 just verbiage, and it is time that people subjecting the whole list to the
 continued indigence.

 There is an RFC, there is a process being followed,



Not really. We left process ago some time ago. For obvious reasons there
isn't a process for a clash between the people with root access and 500+
German wikipedians:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Superschutz

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Flogging dead horses (was Re: Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-17 Thread
What is the benefit of creating yet another thread on this?

Fae

On 18 August 2014 04:13, Wiki Billinghurst billinghurstw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Are we there yet? This subject has been so done to death, that the corpse
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 to now comment to use those vehicles and be considerate to those who have
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