Tectonic shift think tank/Tech requirements/Community

• Real usability test for Watchlists, Preferences, Talk pages, Diffs, Recent Changes
• presence indicators (on Recent Changes)
• User "dashboard" style functionality:
  • Friends
  • Friends edits
  • category tracking
  • presence indicators
• real names as well as handles
• email for Watchlist should be on by default
• White Board? for collaborative work
• easier addition of existing categories and new categories
• prompted to fill in user pages on creation of account
• templates for user page (including details like: what technologies you're using, etc.)
• diffs and all the functionality that goes in Recent Changes
• investigate OpenID or options for single signons between MediaWikis

Social Aspects for WikiEducator

non-technical aspects

• encouraging community
• recognizing individual contributions
• educating beginner users towards becoming power users