On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
What is "Community Tech"? How does it differ from the work the rest of the engineering and product team is doing? Are there people working for the Wikimedia Foundation who are doing design and development that is not for the Wikimedia community? That would be pretty worrying.
Really? It's worrying that the Wikimedia Foundation would devote design and development resources towards projects that don't directly benefit 5+/month editors?* Like, for example, readers?
I looked at <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Community_Tech
and I can't say that I'm very impressed with what I see. Three cordoned off positions, one vacant, to serve the tens of thousands of volunteers that create and build the wiki projects and drive the Wikimedia movement forward? Clearly I'm just misunderstanding, as it would be pretty unimaginable for anyone to seemingly be this insulting.
Yes, you are misunderstanding. I'm sorry the team fails to impress you. The community tech team is a product of the recent Engineering reorganization, and I assume our colleagues will make an announcement once the team is fully assembled. In the meantime, they're eliciting ideas. What exactly is so insulting about a new team, still in the process of being formed, eliciting ideas for projects to work on?
*"active Wikimedia editors" mentioned on the meta page