Talk:Wikimedia Midwest
This might be of interest, but I wasn't sure it would be appropriate for the front page. I just sent this to the mail list for "Events" for the OpenHatch group:
OpenHatch will be helping the Wikimedia Foundation with a testing event on June 9 10AM-noon Pacific time.
WMF is working on a new system for Article Feedback on Wikipedia, and as of June 9, the project will be nearly complete, with all essential functions publicly available. The goal of the testing is to flush out any last potential issues and problems before WMF winds down this phase of the project and releases the new Article Feedback system across all of Wikipedia.
This testing event follows on a similar event that saw WMF collaborate with an established testing organization, the Weekend Testers. We will be extending the invitation to help test Article Feedback to the Weekend Testers in their regular session on June 2, so we expect to have professional software testers on hand as well as participants from OpenHatch.
No programming skill is required for this exercise, just curiosity and and eye for detail (although knowing something about web development and/or Wikipedia is a plus!)
OpenHatch and WMF hope you join us on June 9. There will be more details to follow, but the curious might want to investigate some background:
WMF initial announcement: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenHatch_Testing_June_2012 Description and transcript of the WMF test event with Weekend Testing: http://weekendtesting.com/archives/2499
