User talk:Timothyandrew~mediawikiwiki/GSOC 2012 Proposal

Hey Timothy,

Thanks for the proposal! I really like the idea of tapping into wiki love especially to leave the message because it gets around an issue we have with making the info public (we have to allow it to be deleted/oversighted incase of inappropriate notes). We may have to have access to the special page and the api limited by a user right (and possibly private) because of the deletion issue as well. Another thought would be to have the database/special page be global (based on Meta wiki or another private/global wiki) so that it can include people who were rewarded on any wiki instead of just English Wikipedia. There are a couple simple extensions that do that for example Community Hiring which was a private extension created when we ran a banner asking if people wanted to work for the foundation. They filled out the application on wikimediafoundation.org and then certain staff (only a couple with the user right) could view the applications on a separate staff wiki. That could be an interesting one to look at for ideas on how to do that.

I'm going to shoot you an email but if you haven't yet make sure to submit on the google site! Jalexander (talk) 09:14, 6 April 2012 (UTC)