Thank you very much for taking ownership of GLAMwiki Toolset—a huge project that the WMF is not interested in and no one else really has the resources for.

I consider this project central to Wikimedia DC’s strategic priorities and consider its funding to be essential. I am critical of a couple of points:

* On the must/should/could/won’t scale, I would consider “improving documentation” to be a lot higher than simply “could.” A regular criticism I hear of the toolset is that the documentation is lousy, and if your goal is to encourage more people to use it without expert help, you need better documentation. I would consider elevating the priority for this.

* You will get dinged on your labor rates. Is there a particular reason why it costs $100/hour to build an upload tool, a piece of software that is not terribly specialized—even when considering EU labor rates? This isn’t really a concern for me or Wikimedia DC since we’re not paying for it, but I would be prepared to discuss this should it come up.

Those points aside, I really look forward to seeing the improvements that come out of this project. Best of luck to you and Europeana!

Cheers,

James

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James Hare

President, Wikimedia DC

http://wikimediadc.org

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