Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the information and good luck with your team building itself and
getting down to business.
Philosophically, it would be interesting to hear how the team will be
addressing issues at a sister-community development level.
Traditionally, there has been the apparent focus on tools for the
Wikipedias (and one can see how that happens), so it would be interesting
to hear how you will be lifting your focus to the broader wikimedia wiki
issues. This is especially important as sometimes decisions made for the
Wikipedias have an unexpected adverse impact on the sister wikis. A recent
example would be the recent categories to recent changes/watchlists where
it was premature in its release due to its impacts outside of the WPs. I
know that the sister wikis are smaller and slower in responding to
developments, so it would be great to see how we can utilise the available
tools like beta. Similarly, how the community-tech team can may be lead in
helping those of us outside of the WP-hub to get our needs aligned within
the broader WMF scope.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:54 Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone!
Community Tech will be dealing a lot with technology relevant to Wikimedia
editors. We figured we'd introduce ourselves here, hoping some of you might
want to help out connecting us with the communities.
We're a new team within the Wikimedia Foundation, focused on meeting the
needs of active Wikimedia editors for improved, expert-focused curation and
moderation tools. Making the lives of the people who spend a lot of time
taking care of the Wikimedia projects a little bit easier. This is a small
team: myself, Frances Hocutt and Niharika Kohli, with some support from
Johan Jönsson as a Community Liaison. We'll focus on tasks that can be
dealt with quickly and that will have a direct benefit for the core
community and might be overlooked by the larger WMF development teams.
To find our feet, we’ve mainly been knocking out bugs during the first
weeks. At the moment, we're looking at tasks from previous surveys to see
how we can benefit the communities. We are also working on developing a
good process for soliciting new requests from the Wikimedians we're
responsible for helping. As part of this effort, we have written up a draft
proposal (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey)
for a cross-project community wishlist survey that we would like to launch
within the next month or two. Please take a look at the draft, share it
with your communities, and let us know your thoughts on the talk page.
You can find more information, such as the scope of the team, a roadmap,
what we're doing and what we've done so far on our team page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team
Ryan Kaldari
Engineering Manager, Community Tech
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