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'''About WikiMo''': The about page says currently "Governance issues are managed by the WikiMo module, a sub-module of Websites." but it doesn't explain what is WikiMo and the link goes to a table which is not really about Governance. Is there a more appropriate place on the wiki or elsewhere? [[User:Karlcow|Karlcow]] ([[User talk:Karlcow|talk]]) 15:46, 9 May 2014 (PDT) | '''About WikiMo''': The about page says currently "Governance issues are managed by the WikiMo module, a sub-module of Websites." but it doesn't explain what is WikiMo and the link goes to a table which is not really about Governance. Is there a more appropriate place on the wiki or elsewhere? [[User:Karlcow|Karlcow]] ([[User talk:Karlcow|talk]]) 15:46, 9 May 2014 (PDT) | ||
'''David's comments''': The only thing that I’d add to the scope is that I think it’d be good to apply a bit of a product/UX lens to the wiki as a community infrastructure, because I believe it will result in more use, more people caring and valuing it, and a general virtuous cycle. Wikis in my experience work if a) the content is well gardened (just like any “content” site), and b) people find authoring & editing to be a fun, pleasant, productive experience (just like any other authoring product). Just because we say it's where stuff “should be” isn’t enough. To that end, I’ll opine that: | |||
* performance of an editing tool is critical to its continued use — it’s true for IDEs, it’s true for word processors, and it’s a place where wikis have traditionally been fairly weak, because of their dawn in the earliest age of CGI, etc. I have the impression that perf on wiki.m.o writes has gone up, and that’s great, and we need to do more to improve perceived perf. As a thought-provoking point: editing an etherpad feels 100x faster to me (even if it’s obviously different). | |||
* we need to encourage, train, and recognize & herald wiki gardeners. (Matt Thompson for example is doing a _stellar_ job of doing that and teaching others how to do that for Webmaker content). | |||
* there’s a lot about wikimedia which feels hasn’t really kept up with our collective expectations around authoring environments. Case sensitivity of pages; wikimedia markup in general, clunky authoring environments, etc. There may be more configuration tweaks & add-ons that we could deploy, I’m not an expert there. | |||
* the default skin is way better than it used to be and the pages are less painful to my eye anyway than before — we can still do more. | |||
* having someone act as a product manager for wiki.m.o (and for example care and measure things like daily actives, etc. as a metric of utility of the wiki to the org) would be good — anyone can do that, and I and many others would be happy to coach that person on how to be a product manager with a soul if that coaching was desired. | |||
* there are people with wiki.m.o superpowers, and we should figure out how to get those superpowers more evenly distributed. [and make it so that some of the things those folks can do don’t require super-anything] | |||
* there’s an obvious elephant-in-the-room about wiki.m.o vs. Mana and why we need two. That duality doesn’t bug me too much, but I know it bugs others. Understanding the reason why people use one or the other feels like a good thing to get shared understanding of, even if not everyone will agree w/ the specific decisions. | |||
[[User:DavidA|DavidA]] ([[User talk:DavidA|talk]]) 16:10, 9 May 2014 (PDT) | |||