User talk:Mitevam

Welcome to my talk page.

I am currently applying for the Outreach Program for Women Internship with Wikimedia.

To learn more about me, see my User page. Also, take a look at my application/project proposal. I would appreciate your comments in the "Outreach Program for Women endorsements" section below.

Release notes
Welcome, and first of all wow – first child! I have a question: will your vendors tour help understand what's important for third party MediaWiki users in our MediaWiki releases? We have the problem that many don't understand why they really should update MediaWiki, and as you can see on MediaWiki 1.20 our release announcements are plainly horrible. See previous discussions like. --Nemo 09:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply: yes, that's what I meant.
 * Thanks also for your mediawiki-i18n email, I have two qustions about it: 1) do you want others to edit the list? if yes, and/or if you want it to "survive you", it's better to move it to a subpage of your userpage, so that people feel more comfortable about editing it and if necessary it can be easily moved to another title; 2) is this only about medium to big companies or also individual consultants (single-person companies?)? Thanks, Nemo 11:38, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

things to ask users of mw
On IRC, you asked me:
 * as I am planning to reach out to 3-rd party users, is there anything specific you would like to ask them about release notes and how to make them more useful?

I came across this comment in bugzilla today:


 * I'm *really* dreading my next MediaWiki upgrade now; I *hope* these changes will make upgrading my customer skin easier, but after this experience I'm going start setting aside entire weekends to MediaWiki upgrades, rather than the half an hour it's taken me for every upgrade since 1.12.

That is probably more helpful for the developers, but I think it shows an important pain point that may help inform your questions. -- ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 20:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)