Ryan, can we get an update about when https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey will be launched? Thanks!
Pine On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1. I was thinking of a tool that would let users input a variety of ways >> of referring to the retracted articles, such as DOI numbers (Peaceray is an >> expert in these). The tool would accept multiple inputs simultaneously, >> such as all 64 articles that were retracted in a batch. The tool would >> return to the user a list of all articles in which those references are >> used as citations, and highlight the paragraphs of the article where the >> citations are used. This would, I hope, greatly improve the efficiency of >> the workflow for dealing with retracted journal articles. >> > > Sounds like a reasonable proposal, although I have to wonder if the time > spent building and maintaining this tool would be more or less than the > time it would save editors to search for retracted journal articles. > > >> 2. I'm not clear on where I should list a new idea. The list of ideas in >> Community >> Tech team/All Our Ideas/Process >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/All_Our_Ideas/Process> >> is based on a survey that has already been completed. Is there a >> Phabricator workboard that would be appropriate for listing a new idea such >> as this? >> > > Community Tech is currently only accepting new tasks related to the All > Our Ideas survey results ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/All_Our_Ideas). We > will be opening up a new survey next month though ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Process). > In the meantime, you can post the idea at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas to get more > input on it. More details about all of this will be announced hopefully > next week. > > >> 3. I would prefer to have everyone using the same system, which is >> lists.wikimedia.org. It makes sense to me that everyone might migrate >> eventually to a newer system. I suggest avoiding fragmentation. Researching >> the possibility of migrating all mailing lists to a newer system sounds >> like a good project for Community Tech and I could propose that in >> Phabricator as well if there's a good place to do so. >> > > That's a pretty good point. I'll request to have the mailing list moved to > lists.wikimedia.org. > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
