User:Bawolff/comments on proposal

From Strategic Planning

I thought i'd give my unsolicitated opinion on the contents of Category:Featured proposals. So far i think the most promising: Proposal:Go beyond the Wikis, Proposal:Librsvg development funding, Proposal:Keep the servers running

The good

(not necessarily good ideas, but ideas which have potential)

The Maybe's

  • Proposal:Common watchlists
    • Seems like a good idea, and often requested. However, if people want it so much, why don't they use special:relatedchanges? According to bugzilla:21223#c5 the issues with related chages are:
    • you need to access the relatedchanges - well how lazy can you get, to read wikipedia you have to access it too. I don't see how this proposal would solve the issue of having to load a page.
    • there is no dynamic way to add to your watchlist all pages linked on a given page I'm not aware of there being a way to do that with current watchlists, but its easy to do (for related changes) with js.
    • It's also cumbersome to update, you need to sort them, link the talk pages too linking to talk pages could perhaps be script aided, although I'll give that as a benefit for the proposal. I don't know why one would sort them.
    • Thus I conclude that the feature already exists and no one uses it, thus why would someone use the new feature.
  • Proposal:Data.wikimedia.org - sounds like a use SMW on wikipedia proposal? from what i understand there are scalability issues on that. I might be wrong.
  • Proposal:Get another CMS for Commons I can sort of see where this person is coming from, but i mostly disagree. Some of the requested features should be in mediawiki, some i disagree with (license tags. I'm a soft-security type person), some I don't understand (If someone could explain the difference between tag and category to me, that'd be swell).
  • Proposal:Help people understand the variety of ways in which the may contribute - how? with ponies?
  • Proposal:Hub_Page Sounds kind of cool, sounds kind of like a community portal. Needs better description for what the actual idea is
  • Proposal:Right_to_Left_support Needs more description. Its hard to fix issues we don't know about.
  • Proposal:Run an annual prize for best featured content
  • Proposal:Support_OpenID Maybe. I'd support allowing wmf to authenticate you on other sites, but i'm unsure if i want people to use open id to log in here.
  • Proposal:Support the fight against cross wiki vandalism sure, but it doesn't seem to be a major issue. I find it rare to have cross wiki vandals. Also there is the how, cross wiki vandalism is related to the wiki, so why wouldn't toolserver help?
  • Proposal:Universal User Page maybe tie into interwiki transclude gsoc project

The bad

The ugly

(aka things in the wtf category)