Hey Derk-Jan,
Thanks for chiming in. It's great to have your input.
On 8 April 2015 at 23:22, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This is me waving my red flag and telling you that you are walking
into/picking a huge fight with ‘the community’. You can’t win anything
here, there will only be losers.
As a long time community member myself, I am aware of how contentious this
change is. But I disagree that there will only be losers, as there are
plenty of readers who will benefit from the change.
If you want to convince users that something needs to
be done here, you
should consider handing tools to the community to detect that something is
wrong. Like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive
I'd love to solve this more systematically. What are your suggestions for
how we could do that? We've not had much luck thinking of any so far.
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation