On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@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