(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!
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/wik
i/Talk:Technical_Collaboration ;/Community_collaboration_in_ product_development/Tech_ ambassadors_and_translators 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.
