Let's write up an invitation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Invitation and then get it translated into as many languages as possible so that we can post it to lots of village pumps.
Description
Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Duplicate | Qgil | T125545 Phabricator Q&A session for Community Liaisons | |||
Resolved | Qgil | T116025 Goal: Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices | |||
Resolved | Qgil | T119387 Community Liaison and Developer Relation quarterly goals for January - March 2016 | |||
Resolved | Chen_WMIL | T120828 Open registration for Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 | |||
Resolved | Qgil | T119703 Goal: Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 | |||
Resolved | kaldari | T114193 Administer 2015 Community Wishlist Survey (tracking) | |||
Resolved | kaldari | T115775 Invite projects to participate in the Community Wishlist Survey (once it is ready) | |||
Resolved | kaldari | T114196 Create a village pump invitation for the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey |
Event Timeline
@Qgil, @Nemo_bis, @Quiddity, @Bmueller, @Johan, @Ricordisamoa: Would love to get feedback on the current wording of the invitation:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Invitation
- The second link of the Wishlist Survey invitation goes to an empty page. (If that's intentional then I welcome placeholder content.)
- The Wishlist Survey invitation text covers phase 1 and phase 2 ("we'll ask you to vote"). "Analysis and prioritization" is probably phase 3? (I only found out about "Analysis and prioritization" after clicking the "How to submit a proposal" link. That wording implies it's only a link explaining phase 1.) I'd expect the invitation text to explain what (not) to expect from the Community-Tech team to help me decide whether to spend time participating in this Wishlist Survey.
I was clicking your links so the following items are not related to the invitation text itself:
- "The voting methodology will be left up to the community(?)": I'd expect a clearly defined phase 2 before even starting with phase 1, without any question marks left.
- "will be copied to a new wiki page", "will be updated on the wiki page": These strings should be links, even if only to placeholder pages.
- What is the relation between existing items on m:Community Tech project ideas and the results of the Wishlist Survey, once available?
The second link of the Wishlist Survey invitation goes to an empty page. (If that's intentional then I welcome placeholder content.)
Done.
The Wishlist Survey invitation text covers phase 1 and phase 2 ("we'll ask you to vote"). "Analysis and prioritization" is probably phase 3? (I only found out about "Analysis and prioritization" after clicking the "How to submit a proposal" link. That wording implies it's only a link explaining phase 1.) I'd expect the invitation text to explain what (not) to expect from the Community-Tech team to help me decide whether to spend time participating in this Wishlist Survey.
Sure, you could call "Analysis and prioritization" phase 3. The reason we didn't include analysis and prioritization in the invitation is that Johan, our community liaison, suggested that we keep it as simple as possible so that it doesn't become tl;dr. What do you think about the trade-off of making the invitation longer and more complicated? Isn't it better to just link to the full explanation?
"The voting methodology will be left up to the community(?)": I'd expect a clearly defined phase 2 before even starting with phase 1, without any question marks left.
Yes, we are actively working on resolving that part of the process. In particular, we're discussing it with the TCB team on Monday so we should have a more clear voting process shortly.
"will be copied to a new wiki page", "will be updated on the wiki page": These strings should be links, even if only to placeholder pages.
Good idea.
What is the relation between existing items on m:Community Tech project ideas and the results of the Wishlist Survey, once available?
No direct relation. As the Community Tech project ideas page says, it is intended for brainstorming ideas, not prioritizing them. We will, however, be inviting people to submit ideas from that page as survey proposals.
Ah. May I rewrite the second paragraph to drop that "Phrase 123" stuff to something like:
For the start, we're inviting all active editors to submit brief proposals: Explain the project that you would like us to work on, and why it's important. After two weeks, we will ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards we will analyze and prioritize them.
@Aklapper: That mostly sounds good, but isn't a completely accurate description. I'll try to incorporate some of your wording into the invitation though, especially to explain what happens after the voting phase.
Added some info about the analysis and prioritization step and submitted for translation.