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EPIC: Create program for community agreement for rolling out valid reading features on web
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In Reading, we currently identify problems and craft solutions, but have no solid way for moving them past the beta stage.

Here are some problems:

  • our primary clients are readers, but we don't have a great way to contact them or get feedback--the only readers who engage on wiki are also editors/contributors and therefore a very particular subset of our clients
  • our primary stakeholders are members of the various communities

Here are some potential solutions:

  • as identified by WittyLama, create a consistent beta program and identify the metrics that need to apply to it before we are able to roll-out.
    • Make our current beta program on desktop work for logged-out users, i.e. most readers (T115663)
    • Establish means for getting feedback from beta users (T76573)
  • create a rubric for what policy is required and when.
    • small tweaks: announce
    • new extensions/features: announce and ask for feedback
    • major appearance changes like lead images...?

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Moushira renamed this task from EPIC: Create program for community buy-in for rolling out valid reading features on web to EPIC: Create program for community agreement for rolling out valid reading features on web.Feb 12 2016, 5:38 PM
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Are you working on this task currently? Are you in sync with @Keegan and his goal to define these technical collaboration guidelines for all WMF Product teams?

The solutions proposed on the Beta program, are limited by the tasks already mentioned in the description.

The creation of a policy is being covered in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guideline and our current Technical Collaboration quarterly goal T131883: Communication workflows between WMF Product teams and Wikimedia communities.

Meanwhile, this task seems to be quiet since December-February. It looks like we could close it and put the focus on T131883 and subtasks?

After some conversations with @Moushira and @JKatzWMF, I believe this effort started by Reading last Winter has exactly the same goals than the current Technical Collaboration quarterly goal T131883: Communication workflows between WMF Product teams and Wikimedia communities and the Technical Collaboration Guideline. The Reading team is very welcome to join this effort with ideas, reviews and testing of the guidelines with their own projects.

I have merged this task. Feel free to revert if you think that there is a better move.