Since the team doesn't even exist yet, it's probably going to be a bit nebulous for now. According to the announcements so far:
"The Community Tech team is focused on meeting the needs of active contributors to Wikipedia and the sister projects for improved, expert-focused curation and moderation tools. The creation of the Community Tech team is a direct outcome of requests from core contributors for improved support for moderation tools, bots, and the other features that help the Wikimedia projects succeed. The team will work closely with the community, through the Community Engagement department, to define their roadmap and deliverables."
... and ...
"... This includes a Community Tech team dedicated to supporting tools for core contributors ..."
Kaldari
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we could ask Damon for clarification about the team's scope of work, although my hunch is that this is still being discussed internally. I'm boldly pinging him (:
Pine
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/19/15, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
MZ, I think we should be grateful that WMF is dedicating resources to
power
users, make suggestions to them on what we most want them to work on,
and
leave it at that.
Isn't part of the criticism of this thread that the team has unclear scope? Is the WMF actually dedicating resources to power users?
From where I'm sitting, it looks like the every special interest group is happy that community tech is being dedicated to them. Some people seem to think its going to be creating bots for communities that can't do it themselves, maintaining existing bots, provide technical support for grant requests, fix bug requests primarily affecting elite users fix bug requests primarily affecting unloved sister projects or even (earlier in this thread) fix uploading of large files.
Community-tech is not going to fix everything for everyone. Eventually people will realize this, and its much better to be clear on the scope up front rather then have a bunch of very disappointed users later. I appreciate that the team is just getting off the ground, but presumably there is some notion of what its actually going to do, otherwise hiring for the team would be really hard. Or if it is really trying to do everything, I predict that not working out well.
--bawolff
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