Please, don't forget to make the website translatable. Although most tech people speak English, they will be much more pleased to contribute if they are invited in their mother tongue. :)
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thank you Yuvi for putting efforts in new contributor outreach! > > Let me plug in the thoughts and discussions we have got in a similar > direction so far. Back in January Ross (CCed) had the same idea and we > started discussing until I enourage him to move to wiki pages & here for > further details. Also, let's start applying the lessons learned with the > 'Wikitech contributors' debate. > > > On 04/07/2013 03:11 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: >> >> I came across http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/ today, and >> proceeded to register whatcanidoforwikipedia.org :) > > > Why not doing exactly the same but on mediawiki.org directly? All the effort > put on promoting a brand new site could be put instead in promoting > mediawiki.org in a new, fresh way. > > Why not use the technologies we are already developing? like > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour > > We would become their users, we would help testing and improving them. The > effort you are putting contributing code on this new project could be put > instead in patches to those extensions, better CSS and look & feel for our > site, etc. Producing and eating our own dog food. > > Why not improving mediawiki.org pages making them friendly to newcomers > instead of creating content from scratch that would point to the same > mediawiki.org pages that we would need to improve anyway? > > For example, no matter how nice your page on Lua is, the users clicking it > would still land on > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lua .... > > > >> Thoughts on what to put there? I cal already think of the following >> languages to put up: >> >> 1. PHP >> 2. JS >> 3. Lua >> 4. Python >> 5. Java >> 6. Obj-C >> 7. 'Design' > > > This recollection is exactly the same work we are calling "One ontology" at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors#One_ontology > > Why not creating > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/One_ontology , move > this list there and continue defining more categories on that page? > > >> I'll start a wiki page sometime to collect content, and then spend >> some time writing the code - we can even fork the original site's code >> and use it. > > > Yes please, start a wiki page documenting this effort that I hope becomes > the same effort that we want to put in mediawiki.org. URL suggested: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:New_contributors/What_can_I_do > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- З павагай, Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
