[errr my email is being weird... the first time I sent this I got a "bounce" email from google saying that no mail was sent because of an error and the 2nd time it only went to Jon Katz... so if anyone got multiple copies I'm sorry...
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Jon Katz <jkatz@wikimedia.org> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
Our communities reaction seems to be to push back on
influxes of new edits which makes me feel we should be spending more
time on moderation tools - but so far I don't see any hint that this
will become a focus.

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I'll add that traditional community tools help a small group of highly talented people deal with a massive flow of changes. For written, encyclopedia articles, that is probably warranted.   For images, we should consider harnessing our massive army of readers.  Many large websites (with non-volunteer moderators) offload the penultimate step of moderation to human readers, via flagging or "report abuse" features. We have an army of readers who would be interested in helping at a lower level-of-effort--are there any concerns with bringing them in? 


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Moderations tools are something we need to think about strongly, especially since I actually think a lot of them could be hugely beneficial on mobile since many of them are more easily mappable then long form editing etc. Whenever we want to dramatically increase users acting on wiki or different types of contribution thinking about the corresponding moderation tool is not only important it's mandatory to have a successful product (of course the thinking about it 'could' be that the change is small enough not to require additional moderation). If we don't it can be one of the quickest ways to sing the product both from a community but also a practical standpoint. On a separate, but related, side it also shows the community who has to curate and patrol that we're thinking about them too.

The good news is that from what I've seen we ARE thinking about it more. Jon (K) for example had one of the earliest conversations I've ever had about moderation requirements and tools before Gather was fully developed and I've recently been having some good conversations with Danny about Flow issues. This is something we need to build more into our processes on multiple levels but I've seen a lot more attention to it recently then we used to have.

James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur