Hi all.
WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look after the software
that faces us everyday, and often work together.
Could we please have some more people (potentially a dedicated ‘community’ team) who
could do these things:
- encourage feedback by absolutely /anyone/ about the next features they'd like,
- run programming and documentation activities requested (or started) by community [there
would be a lot of small projects, unlike the big ones the current Teams are working on],
- encourage localising documentation for, and centralising the location of, all
community-developed programming work,
- raise awareness of community development efforts across all Wikimedia projects,
- actively encourage members of community become MediaWiki and Gadgets hackers in the
Free Software philosophy?
This would be, in my view, a relatively small, collaboration-type team (with just half a
handful of people for timezone coverage for IRC support).
Open to brainstorming and suggestions. I would compile thoughts into a wiki page
afterwards to continue thinking on the idea.
The roles you describe seem to have a lot of overlap with what we
might expect WMF volunteer coordinators / WMF community liaison
employees to be busy with. Compare with:
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Do you intend this to be an unpaid team of volunteers doing these
tasks, or a end user group (in the Agile sense) that would be
supported by employees and may themselves be paid for some activities?
Fae