MozillaWiki:Team/Meetings/2014-06-17
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Wiki Working Group - 17 June 2014
Previous notes: Contribute/Education/Wiki_Working_Group/Notes/2014-06-03
Attendees
- Christie
- KaiRo
- Callek
- Joelle (Queeniebee)
- AlisonW (sends apols due to Vidyo 'issues')
- C.Liang
- Tanner
- MarkH (hexmode, on phone)
- Gordon
- jd
Agenda / Notes
Cross-Committee Issues
- Wikimania update
- https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Booklets Get a leaflet made?
- Arrange to get together Friday of pre hackathon days?
- I'm there wed and frid, sat, sun. Out Thu. -- hexmode
- A subset of WWG will be on-site hacking on the 6th & 7th. Happy to have more! (Friday the 8th has conference sessions.)
- ps. booking is now *open*
- Trello board! https://trello.com/b/lsdVtFWh/wiki-working-group
Committee Updates
Research & Development
- draft survey for review: https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/wwg-survey
- From Wikiapiary: https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/MozillaWiki
Systems & Data
Spam update
- ConfirmAccount implementation
- Some confusion RE: language (non-native English)
- Gerv, etc. pinch-hitting
- need a template text for rejecting / approving people
- Should we go ahead and restrict create/edit permissions to 'confirm' group? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987187
- Try to get back to stock groups?
- let's make a plan of incremental steps and roll-out slowly
- documentation around when it is appropriate to exercise <x>?
- translation can also be done with sub-pages (see mediawiki.org and commons.wikimedia.org)
Cleaning up old spam
- paas.mozilla.org update? - jd and christie meeting tomorrow; update to come out later
- How should we decide on applications?
- there seem to be many requests from people wanting an account as a status symbol or because they appear to think it is a job application. Yay or nay?
Education
- style guide for review: https://cbt.etherpad.mozilla.org/wwg-styleguide
Pathways
Recognition
- let's find a way to track who is helping with spam and recognize them accordingly
- "Spam Zapper" badge!
- Extension:AbuseFilter + regex + tagging users who use a template?
- I've started playing with AbuseFilter and would love to do this. -- hexmode
Action Items
- Mark: follow-up on duplicate notification emails
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66731
- Email sent to recent contributor Paladox asking for help.
- Christie: stock confirmaccount templates
- Christie: start a blog post about helping id and remove spam
- [Gordon] create / modifiy spam template for users to help us with spam
Tentative Wikimania Agenda
Wednesday, 6 August: Hacking on 1.23 upgrade!
- Mozilla-izing vector theme
- Sunsetting gmo theme
- fixing plugin compatibility
- how're we doing on spam?
Thursday, 7 August: Hacking on improvements!
- bots, bots, bots!
- mobile extension
- best practices documentation
- VisualEditor
- other useful extensions?
Friday, 8 August
- attend wikimania sessions
Saturday, 9 August
- attend wikimania sessions
Sunday, 10 August
- attend wikimania sessions
- regroup to share what we've learned
- end of year planning (e.g. distributed wiki sprint)