Wiki Working Group: 7 March 2014 (First meeting)

Purpose / Goal

To introduce ourselves to each other, review history and current state of wiki and create a preliminary roadmap for improvements.

Attendees

• Jennie Rose Halperin/ Mozilla Community Building/ @little_wow
• Christie Koehler (CBT, ckoehler@mozilla.com)
• Larissa (CBT, larissa@mozilla.com)
• Justin Crawford (Web prod / websites team)
• Jason Crowe - JD (IT, WebOps)
• Gordon (All-around Mozilla volunteer, Wikipedian for over 10 years, WHATWG wiki admin)
• C (WebOps)

Action Items

• Clean-up and post meeting notes - ckoehelr
• Find out who has been working on Sandstone theme, evaluate code - ckoehler
• Update language on Main Page to make it friendlier :) - ?
• Explain how wiki.mozilla.org fits in to mozilla website ecosystem - Larissa & Justin
• Request creation of wiki working group email list

Agenda / Notes

Priorities

Participants in the meeting took turns speaking about what they saw as priority issues to address. The following is an aggregate of those priorities.

• Sandstone theme (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/websites/sandstone/ ) (https://wiki-dev.allizom.org/?useskin=sandstone )( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793403 )
  • responsiveness
  • compatibility
  • links
  • completeness
  • needs to be more than just a fork of previous theme
• Information architecture / organization
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:SpecialPages
  • namespaces vs subpages (colons vs. slashes)
  • categories
  • templates
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:Templates
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:UncategorizedTemplates
  • timestamps
  • more in-wiki documentation
  • talk pages
  • semantic categorization
• Project ownership
• Templates
• How to use it / Best practices
  • styleguide
    • • legacy content
        • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:AncientPages (oldest page not updated since November 7, 2004)
  • training
  • user rights / acls
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:ProtectedPages
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:ListGroupRights
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:ActiveUsers
  • spam
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:NewPages
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:WantedTemplates
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:LonelyPages
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:DeadendPages
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Special:UnwatchedPages (admin only)
  • maintain low barrier to entry
• VisualEditor / Ease of use
• Maintenance tasks / legacy content
• Recruiting participants

People to Invite / Consult

• Katherine Naszradi (has requested Semantic Wiki) (bug 956823 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956823)