Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:37:52 +0100, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Publicize. I had no idea anybody was doing anything like that, and I follow all channels worth following. -- Matma Rex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed
On 2013-03-12 8:38 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Don't take this the wrong way, but you should perhaps start considering a plan b. Community contributed extensions often take months before getting deployed. While that's not always the case, it is the likely case. You should also probably work on getting approval from the wikidata community. Its unlikely the extension will be deployed unless there is agreement at wikidata that the extension is wanted. (From what I've seen you left a comment on the vp to which no one responded to. That is not usually sufficient. Usually you have to get a bunch of people to actively support you) Best of luck, --bawolff ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed
On 03/13/2013 08:00 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: On 2013-03-12 8:38 PM, Lukas Benedix bene...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Do you have any advice what I can do? Don't take this the wrong way, but you should perhaps start considering a plan b. Community contributed extensions often take months before getting deployed. While that's not always the case, it is the likely case. You should also probably work on getting approval from the wikidata community. Its unlikely the extension will be deployed unless there is agreement at wikidata that the extension is wanted. (From what I've seen you left a comment on the vp to which no one responded to. That is not usually sufficient. Usually you have to get a bunch of people to actively support you) Best of luck, --bawolff Lukas, I have to regretfully agree with Brian. Please do consider alternative means to test the feedback mechanisms in your project; it is unlikely that, within the next 2-3 weeks, you will be able to get through the multiple rounds of revision needed to meet design and technical deployment standards. If you set up a test wiki with this functionality then we can ask people to try it out, to ensure you get data from a few dozen people. You won't be the first researcher who had to change the proposed experimental method for pragmatic reasons. :/ -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed
Hi there! I am Lukas Benedix, a student of computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. In cooperation with the Wikidata developer team, I’m currently working on my bachelor thesis about usability testing in open source software projects and I’d like to provide the Wikidata community my developed feedback mechanisms (only as a test). Wikidata is a very active, emerging project which is why I think it’s a great platform for my project. And now here's the problem: The deadline of my bachelor thesis is approaching soon. The test is designed to run for two weeks and I unfortunately underestimated how much time it needs to get a review for my extension before deployment. Is it possible to accelerate that review process somehow? The extension is in gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50004) Do you have any advice what I can do? For further information about my project: Here's a little description I wrote for the Wikidata community: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lbenedix/UIFeedback Best regards, Lukas Benedix ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] A new feedback extension - review urgently needed
On 03/12/2013 07:37 PM, Lukas Benedix wrote: Hi there! I am Lukas Benedix, a student of computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. In cooperation with the Wikidata developer team, I’m currently working on my bachelor thesis about usability testing in open source software projects and I’d like to provide the Wikidata community my developed feedback mechanisms (only as a test). Wikidata is a very active, emerging project which is why I think it’s a great platform for my project. And now here's the problem: The deadline of my bachelor thesis is approaching soon. The test is designed to run for two weeks and I unfortunately underestimated how much time it needs to get a review for my extension before deployment. Is it possible to accelerate that review process somehow? The extension is in gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50004) Do you have any advice what I can do? For further information about my project: Here's a little description I wrote for the Wikidata community: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lbenedix/UIFeedback Best regards, Lukas Benedix Lukas, can you give more specifics regarding your deadline? A variety of people would have to help you get through all the steps of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment and so it might not be feasible to get all these things done in time. :( In that case you should possibly consider setting up a Wikidata variant in Wikimedia Labs -- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ . -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
