Hello everyone!
If you are curious to see what we learned from discussing the topic of
tech ambassadors and translators with you, head to
to find out.
We'll work towards having very active wikis covered by at least one
tech ambassadors each, so this is another reminder to please add your
name to
, and/or
to tell other people who you know would be great in that role to
please sign up.
Once this list is big enough, we'll start having focused conversations
with the interested people.
(Still, don't forget about the translators' table at
! )
Thanks for participating so far, have a great weekend, and talk to you soon,
Erica
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
hey all,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
(A translated version of this message may be available at Meta.)
Greetings everyone,
Wikimedia Foundation’s community liaisons want to continue improving the
collaboration between WMF software development teams and our communities. We
want to include more and more diverse people to work together in friendly
environments. For this goal, tech ambassadors and tech translators play a
crucial role. How can we support them (you!) better?
We would like to strengthen the roles of tech ambassadors and tech
translators. Make these roles more visible to new potential volunteers, more
enjoyable to contribute to, and more recognized across the Wikimedia
movement.
For this reason, we are calling current and prospective contributors to
help us define not only a solid definition of the roles, but also related
metrics that we will adopt as part of our Key Performance Indicators. We
will also explore pain points and opportunities for improvement in the
workflow of these roles. This activity has already started with a review of
Tech News as a way to effectively disseminate technical information, and
will continue with a review of other major product newsletters, among other
things.
We are sharing a draft of role definitions and KPIs. Of course, the end
result might be much different, depending on your input!
This is both a gentle reminder to provide your thoughts on the page linked
below or come to our little gathering at Wikimania in 2 days (there may be
candies...), and a heads-up that the CE department table is now n.13 (keep
an eye on
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village ).
Talk to you soon!
The feedback period goes from Tuesday, August 8th to the 22nd. (Rest
assured that even if we may not be able to reply to each message, we will
read and consider all of them.)
You have the opportunity to share your thoughts in the following ways:
Online, in the 2 megathreads at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration/Community_coll…
;
Online, by replying privately (not to the list, please!) to this message;
In person at Wikimania this week, by meeting us on Saturday 12, 3-3:45pm,
in Salon 2, level 2 of the venue for a focused chat. Please help us spread
the word, as this meeting is not featured on the Programme! (maybe retweet
this?);
In person, by meeting us at the Community Engagement table (#1 in map) in
Wikimania’s Community Village.
If you're already onboard with being more involved, testing new features,
giving or gathering feedback on more complicated issues, and generally being
your community's hero, just sign up instead in the tables:
active tech ambassadors - active tech translators .
We are looking forward to seeing where this will lead all of us!
Elitre,
Senior Community Liaison
Technical Collaboration team
PS: I'm about to jump on planes to Montreal: I plan to spread the word
about the initiative above in other venues (such as specific pages on Meta)
soon.
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