I dont speak for the comunity tech team - but im pretty sure they would love any and all help (as would pretty much any foundation team). It is probably a good idea to check in with the team and tell them what you are planning to work on in order to make sure you arent duplicating any work
--bawolff On Friday, January 8, 2016, Bill Morrisson <billmorrisso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I wish to ask if volunteer developers can participate in one of the top 10 > wishes of the community wishlist or can only start working on those wishes > that are at the rest of the list or if volunteer developers need a > particular permission for that. > > Thanks > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Henning, >> >> If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve >> automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human >> contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead >> links than people willing to replace them. >> >> On English Wikipedia, there's Category:All articles with dead external >> links, and it contains more than 134,000 articles[1] -- and those are just >> the pages where somebody's added the Dead link template. There are a lot of >> missing references -- not just on English WP, but on all the projects -- >> and connecting those links to a live archive makes them useful again. >> >> For links that were moved, we may be able to collect and use that >> information -- I know that we're looking into what kind of metadata we can >> collect when a new link is added to the page. But I think finding >> alternative sources has to come from human contributors, and that's hard to >> scale. >> >> Danny >> PM, Community Tech >> >> [1]: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_dead_external_links >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Henning Schlottmann < >> h.schlottm...@gmx.net> >> wrote: >> >> > On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote: >> > >> > > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) >> > >> > I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the >> > quality of Wikipedia. >> > >> > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of >> > looking for >> > >> > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved. >> > b) alternative sources for the same fact. >> > >> > Ciao Henning >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > New messages to: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
