Yes, the announcement was encouraging! I'm sure we'll be in touch when
these issues surface again after the reorg dust settles :-)
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jon Robson
<jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm
just troubled by some of the language used here, and elsewhere,
which
describes a "fear" of more users. I
can't help but wonder how many
companies
or services would readily welcome a "massive
influx of users." How will
Wikipedia or Commons succeed if we're afraid growth?
+1. How we change this culture is the holy grail of Wikimedia's
future. Unless we change this, our project will die imo. I was really
saddened to see mobile uploads disappear from web - we had a lot of
spam yes but we also had people posting never before available photos
of diseases [1]. 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. This is a bigger problem than web and apps but so
far we see this more than most... I think this is something we'd have
to convince Lila is a good use of our time...
Lila is convinced it is a good use of time; that's why tools for community
needs was in the Call To Action. And that's why we announced the creation
of a Community Tech team yesterday (see wikimedia-l). Details and
prioritization are still to be fleshed out (they can't tackle everything at
once!) but moderation tools are definitely one of the things the team could
tackle.
Luis
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Luis Villa
Sr. Director of Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
*Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely
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