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)