Talk pages consultation 2019/zh

The Talk pages consultation is a global consultation planned from February to June 2019, to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to define better tools for wiki communication. The consultation will seek input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible – on multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives – to come up with a product direction for a set of communication features that a product team will be able to work on in the coming fiscal year.

该商讨会的目的
A wikitext talk page isn't made out of software; it's a collection of cultural conventions that are baffling to newcomers and annoying for experienced editors. Counting colons to indent a reply properly, using tildes to sign your name, having to watch an entire talk page instead of the section you're participating in, not having an easy reply link – these are headaches for everyone.

At the same time, there are many things that wikitext talk pages do well. The empty edit window has given people the freedom to invent templates and techniques that are extremely flexible and adaptable. Conversations can be reorganized on the fly. Using diffs and revisions means that you can always see what's been done on a page, when, and by whom. The functionality that helped people collaborate on millions of encyclopedia articles for fifteen years shouldn't be dismissed as old-fashioned and useless.

Wikimedia Foundation product teams have worked on communication tools before: (started in 2010) and  (started in 2012). Both of these projects have been used successfully on many wikis, although they've also both been heavily criticized, and neither has gained wide acceptance on many of the largest wikis.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We believe that this is essential for us to reach our goal of providing free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

期待从此商讨会得到的结果
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在本次咨询结束时，我们将为产品团队在下一财年从事于的一系列沟通功能提供总体方向. 我们将粗略地达成共识，即我们的贡献者同意这种整体方法，包括在多种语言和多个项目新的贡献者和经验丰富的用户.

在咨询结束时，我们将能够回答以下问题：


 * 我们正在构建一个功能，还是多个功能？
 * 我们是在改进以前的系统，还是构建新工具？
 * How will we balance ease of use with the advanced feature set that our most complex use cases require?
 * 产品团队应该调查和测试哪些重要的开放性问题？

The result will not be a complete, detailed product specification. 产品团队将随着时间的推移制定和修订详细的计划，设计，测试以及与用户进行持续密切的合作. 但我们将有一个坚实的起点，我们将确信该团队走在正确的轨道上.

为了鼓励信任和诚信，咨询和最终产品开发将完全公开和透明. 每个步骤都将记录在wiki上.

可能的解决方案
要使这个过程发挥作用，我们需要对各种方向持开放态度. 我们可能从这次商讨会得到以下列出的一个或多个结论：


 * 在现有wikitext讨论页面上建立新附加组建，使得讨论页面更加便利和高效.
 * 在对话页面上使用具有额外功能的可视化编辑器.
 * 构建一个非结构化讨论/Flow的新软件功能.
 * 建立在现有结构化讨论/Flow功能之上.
 * Building more than one solution – it's possible that we define separate sets of requirements for user talk conversations, content/project page conversations, common workflows and RFCs, and that there are two (or more) different features.
 * Something completely different that we haven't considered yet.

非目标
虽然我们对所有好的想法感兴趣，并且将来可能需要一些好处，但有些事情超出了当前项目的范围：


 * 在维基外的讨论平台 - 使用维基媒体帐户进行讨论需要在维基上进行.
 * 临时内容 - 讨论需要存储在维基上，以便以后可以找到并引用它们.
 * 针对小众观众的工具 - 讨论是为每个人设计的，并且要考虑到公平. 我们不是仅为一部分用户构建工具（例如：体验、语言和首选设备）.
 * A social network per se – Discussions on Wikimedia should primarily be in service of improving content on the wiki.
 * Real-time discussions – Real-time discussions have value, but our current focus is on asynchronous discussions for the reasons mentioned in points above.
 * The status quo – Leaving talk pages exactly as they are.

参与
我们目前正处于规划阶段. Please read this page and provide feedback on the overall process for this talk page consultation:

We're also looking for volunteers to be the primary contact for participant groups throughout this process.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Final decisions
The project is led by Trevor Bolliger (Product Manager), Benoît Evellin (Community Relations Specialist), Sherry Snyder (Community Relations Specialist) and Danny Horn (Director of Product Management).

Information from multiple communities and other stakeholders is extremely important. We deeply believe that we can't make a good decision without listening to you and understanding your needs. However, the final decision about what software to support will be made by the Wikimedia Foundation, after due consideration of all the available information, our educational purpose, and the movement's 2030 strategic direction.

Decision criteria
While the Wikimedia Foundation will make the final decisions in the 2019 talk page consultation, we are entering this process with honest curiosity, no preconceived solutions, and we are legitimately seeking to comprehend the feedback we receive. That said, there will be many difficult discussions about trade-offs we need to make. When it comes time to make a decision, all valid options will be weighed by the following criteria:


 * Which option(s) most aligns with our values?
 * Which option is most in alignment with Strategic Direction of Knowledge Equity?
 * Which option serves the most users and use cases as opposed to niche users?
 * Which option will result in more accessible user experience, for anyone on any device?
 * Which option will result in a more sustainable product that will be resilient to changing technologies, evolving use cases, and user expectations?
 * Which option poses the least amount of risk to achieve our project goals?