[12:02:10] So I'm thinking we should advertise GCI more [12:02:25] The main page used to have a "new opportunitis" column, but i guess that disappeared [12:02:50] maybe we should put it in the news section [12:03:09] I guess we could even get really spammy and make a sitenotice. Wikipedias do it all the time for their contest [12:13:29] Maybe i should re-add opportunities section [12:14:14] That looks complex though [12:21:44] Well I did it, it shows up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki now [12:29:37] bawolff: I removed "New Opportunities" because what the heck does that even mean. [12:29:46] What's the target group of that even? :) [12:30:13] Adding stuff to "News" on mw.org is a good idea, thanks! [12:30:38] Now if I only get my ass up to continue on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T653 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_improvements_2018 , sigh.... [12:30:59] andre__: Confirmed, you are secretly a sock puppet of Chad :P [12:31:30] I think the original intention was new opportunities to get involved (confrences and the like, maybe even irc meetings). Which i don't think is a terrible idea...but well details in the implementation and nobody really ever ran with it [12:32:29] I kind of like the idea of at least putting somewhere on the main page upcoming hackathons, etc [12:33:11] I think we underutilize the marketing potential of the main page. But figuring out exactly what to do is the harder part, and then making sure to always do it [12:33:47] Indeed. I'd say that's what "News" should be for? [12:34:08] plus..... heck, I don't understand how to fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165773 [12:34:24] *if* you have any idea, feedback in that patch or task is welcome. [12:35:13] Hmm, I think i used to know that, but was a long time ago :) [12:36:08] while I do not know and do not understand the documentation :D [12:37:06] Bug 1 strikes again [12:44:13] andre__: For https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209344 - I was kind of picturing that as an intermediate task, where after a student completed some other coding tasks, they might want the challenge of something that is not quite as spelled out (but still relatively easy). Is that a bad idea in the context of the contest? I can go back and add more details [12:47:39] ok, yep. The featured feed config file is indeed very confusing [12:49:43] So wait, currently mediawiki.org has a media of the day feed? that makes very little sense [12:51:13] Hmm, doesn't look like that's actually true, but the config file says it should be [12:53:19] yeah, this is definitely something I'll have to test [12:58:00] bawolff, GCI: If you clearly define the required skill set at the beginning ("more challenging", "must have worked on some MediaWiki GCI tasks before", "you are more on your own here" etc), that would be very welcome [13:04:35] andre__: Ok, I put that in the gci task (but not in the phab ticket as it seems a little odd to put that there). The phab ticket is currently marked "needs more information", let me know what else I should put in there or which parts i should go in more detail [13:14:57] thanks