[Labs-l] Tool Labs: Summary of Feedback on the Draft for the Roadmap

Mon Apr 22 13:51:22 UTC 2013

Hi all!

Let me shortly summarize the comments on the roadmap's discussion pages:
There were no comments about the actual roadmap but feedback
concerning these two topics:

1) What's going to migrate and what isn't?
* Until now, it's not clear which tools will not be able to move. Or
which maintainers might decide not to move and why. People are curious
about this but tool maintainers would have to talk about it for us to
find out.

2) Bad Tool Labs experience:
* How fast is the account creation process right now? A tool
maintainer reported that he spontaneously had some time to think about
migrating. He requested an account but then waited for two weeks to
get it. For people working on tools in their spare time this is too
long.
* Documentation has to be improved! Good overviews are needed as well
as a detailed documentation of everything relevant to working in Tool
Labs.
* An example: You get strange messages and can't find any information
on them, e.g. this one: "Your user rights were changed by Andrew
Bogott. You are now a member of this group: shell. Learn more". By
clicking onto it, you get a list of permissions: "loginviashell".
There is a red link pointing to "Wikitech:Shell". The user is
confused.
* Who is responsible for documentation? (I'm not sure I answered this
correctly: It's not clear to me how much the Tool Labs docs overlap
with general Labs docs and who is responsible for that part. Or is the
Tool Labs documentation isolated from the rest???)

Cheers, Silke

2013/4/19 Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>:
> Hi all!
>
> As you know Wikimedia Deutschland has the mandate to create a roadmap
> for the availability of features on Wikimedia Labs / Tool Labs that are
> currently available on the Toolserver until the next membership assembly
> (May 25th). I have worked on this for the last weeks and now published a
> draft. I would like to get your feedback on this draft to make sure it
> is sound and nothing vital is missing. The current version is not final
> but hopefully very close to what will be presented at the membership
> assembly next month.
>
> The plan has been drafted in close cooperation with the responsible
> people at the Wikimedia Foundation. It still needs a final ok from them
> though.
>
> You can find the drafts at:
>
> English version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_en
>
> German version: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Roadmap_de
>
> To not spread out discussions too far please use the discussion pages of
> the above two pages for comments, suggestions and corrections.
>
> Cheers, Silke
>
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>
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>
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-- 
Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.