Hi everyone,
I’d like to put together a detailed agenda for our meeting with Sonja Perry on Sept 16. Sonja is a WMF group product manager for the “Contributors” teams (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPerry-WMF). Could you all please send us/me any thoughts on topics or questions you would like to cover?
For this meeting, Sonja asked, "Is there anything specific you'd like us to demo or talk about? I'd be happy to pull data or gather other information if you're interested in talking about something specific."
The areas under Sonja's leadership are: - Editing - Connection (formerly known as “Campaigns”) - Moderator Tools - Growth
Best wishes, Su-Laine
On Monday, September 8, 2025, Su-Laine Brodsky sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’d like to put together a detailed agenda
Great. Thank you for doing this!
for our meeting with Sonja Perry on Sept 16. Sonja is a WMF group product manager for the “Contributors” teams (https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/User:SPerry-WMF). Could you all please send us/me any thoughts on topics or questions you would like to cover?
For this meeting, Sonja asked, "Is there anything specific you'd like us to demo or talk about? I'd be happy to pull data or gather other information if you're interested in talking about something specific."
Support and resource alocation for iphone image and video uploads? (if WMF does not wanna do it can it pay others)
Making Wikipedia app on iphone capable of uploading at least some type of images? Ideally also audio.
Making Wikipedia and Commons App become slightly more generalized in code and with less hard-coded parametars - so it could be used by other MediaWikis?
The areas under Sonja's leadership are:
- Editing
(?futurly known as ‘contributing’, as curently it does not seem to include overseeing, uploading, indexing, sorting… of content)
- Connection (formerly known as “Campaigns”)
- Moderator Tools
- Growth
Best wishes, Su-Laine
Thank you
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Great ideas, thanks Željko! Also an update: Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering, will also be at the meeting.
Cheers, Su-Laine
On Sep 8, 2025, at 7:43 AM, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
On Monday, September 8, 2025, Su-Laine Brodsky <sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com mailto:sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’d like to put together a detailed agenda
Great. Thank you for doing this!
for our meeting with Sonja Perry on Sept 16. Sonja is a WMF group product manager for the “Contributors” teams (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPerry-WMF). Could you all please send us/me any thoughts on topics or questions you would like to cover?
For this meeting, Sonja asked, "Is there anything specific you'd like us to demo or talk about? I'd be happy to pull data or gather other information if you're interested in talking about something specific."
Support and resource alocation for iphone image and video uploads? (if WMF does not wanna do it can it pay others)
Making Wikipedia app on iphone capable of uploading at least some type of images? Ideally also audio.
Making Wikipedia and Commons App become slightly more generalized in code and with less hard-coded parametars - so it could be used by other MediaWikis?
The areas under Sonja's leadership are:
- Editing
(?futurly known as ‘contributing’, as curently it does not seem to include overseeing, uploading, indexing, sorting… of content)
- Connection (formerly known as “Campaigns”)
- Moderator Tools
- Growth
Best wishes, Su-Laine
Thank you
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Hi everyone,
Some updates: - Marzanne Collins from the WMF will also be joining our meeting to hear our thoughts about the community wishlist process. - Per Sonja’s message below, unfortunately, it looks like Tuesday’s meeting will not have anyone from the WMF who deals with Commons features.
Are there any other specific, non-Commons ideas for technology enhancements that you would like to discuss? I’ll throw out a few ideas below to get the ball rolling. They might be terrible or low-priority ideas but I’ll share them anyway to get us started:
1) Make it easier to copy CC-BY text into Wikipedia articles in a policy-compliant way 2) Make it easier to add citations to very long reports such as IPCC reports (citations to long reports require page numbers) 3) Make it easier for new editors to choose a policy-compliant username instead of putting in a bad one and then getting blocked for it 4) Help editors understand whether a given source for a given article is secondary, reliable, and independent of the subject 5) Flag claims that may not be supported by their cited sources 6) For people reviewing new biographies, provide descriptions of the awards that the subject has received to help reviewers assess whether they are legitimate and major 7) For sockpuppet investigations, compare the writing styles and behaviors of different accounts and point out similarities and differences. 8) For editors who are trying to make date formats in an article follow one standard, help them convert date in the article to the standard.
Cheers, Su-Laine
On Sep 12, 2025, at 9:55 AM, Sonja Perry sperry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Su-Laine,
I noticed in the agenda thread you started that there were some requests for features and updates on Commons. Unfortunately, that's not an area I own and I don't think it would be time well spent for us to talk about that. Other WMF teams are currently thinking through this a bit more and I believe October / November might be a better time frame for picking that topic up again. If you're interested in that, I can get you in touch with someone more familiar with the topic for a future session.
That being said, here are some things we could talk about in our meeting next week: AI strategy - Chris was a co-author of that and the AI strategy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial_intelligence_for_editors is tightly coupled with... Tooling and longer term thinking in the contributor space overall. I've been working on drafting a strategy document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Contributors/Strategy based on research, data, and discussions with the community. This is still very much in draft mode, so I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the direction we currently plan to take. Does that sound like a good plan? If you have time to read either document ahead of time, we're also happy to dive into specific questions or topics that are especially interesting to your group.
Thanks, and I look forward to our meeting next week! Sonja
On Sep 8, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Su-Laine Brodsky sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com wrote:
Great ideas, thanks Željko! Also an update: Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering, will also be at the meeting.
Cheers, Su-Laine
On Sep 8, 2025, at 7:43 AM, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
On Monday, September 8, 2025, Su-Laine Brodsky <sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com mailto:sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’d like to put together a detailed agenda
Great. Thank you for doing this!
for our meeting with Sonja Perry on Sept 16. Sonja is a WMF group product manager for the “Contributors” teams (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPerry-WMF). Could you all please send us/me any thoughts on topics or questions you would like to cover?
For this meeting, Sonja asked, "Is there anything specific you'd like us to demo or talk about? I'd be happy to pull data or gather other information if you're interested in talking about something specific."
Support and resource alocation for iphone image and video uploads? (if WMF does not wanna do it can it pay others)
Making Wikipedia app on iphone capable of uploading at least some type of images? Ideally also audio.
Making Wikipedia and Commons App become slightly more generalized in code and with less hard-coded parametars - so it could be used by other MediaWikis?
The areas under Sonja's leadership are:
- Editing
(?futurly known as ‘contributing’, as curently it does not seem to include overseeing, uploading, indexing, sorting… of content)
- Connection (formerly known as “Campaigns”)
- Moderator Tools
- Growth
Best wishes, Su-Laine
Thank you
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Hi all, I've added some info to the agenda, including results from Wikimania 2024's preconference as well as this year's Wikimania 2025 State of GLAM Wiki Tech outcomes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network/20...
-Andrew
On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM Su-Laine Brodsky sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Some updates:
- Marzanne Collins from the WMF will also be joining our meeting to hear
our thoughts about the community wishlist process.
- Per Sonja’s message below, unfortunately, it looks like Tuesday’s
meeting will not have anyone from the WMF who deals with Commons features.
Are there any other specific, non-Commons ideas for technology enhancements that you would like to discuss? I’ll throw out a few ideas below to get the ball rolling. They might be terrible or low-priority ideas but I’ll share them anyway to get us started:
- Make it easier to copy CC-BY text into Wikipedia articles in a
policy-compliant way 2) Make it easier to add citations to very long reports such as IPCC reports (citations to long reports require page numbers) 3) Make it easier for new editors to choose a policy-compliant username instead of putting in a bad one and then getting blocked for it 4) Help editors understand whether a given source for a given article is secondary, reliable, and independent of the subject 5) Flag claims that may not be supported by their cited sources 6) For people reviewing new biographies, provide descriptions of the awards that the subject has received to help reviewers assess whether they are legitimate and major 7) For sockpuppet investigations, compare the writing styles and behaviors of different accounts and point out similarities and differences. 8) For editors who are trying to make date formats in an article follow one standard, help them convert date in the article to the standard.
Cheers, Su-Laine
On Sep 12, 2025, at 9:55 AM, Sonja Perry sperry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Su-Laine,
I noticed in the agenda thread you started that there were some requests for features and updates on Commons. Unfortunately, that's not an area I own and I don't think it would be time well spent for us to talk about that. Other WMF teams are currently thinking through this a bit more and I believe October / November might be a better time frame for picking that topic up again. If you're interested in that, I can get you in touch with someone more familiar with the topic for a future session.
That being said, here are some things we could talk about in our meeting next week:
- *AI strategy* - Chris was a co-author of that and the AI strategy
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial_intelligence_for_editors is tightly coupled with...
- *Tooling and longer term thinking in the contributor space *overall.
I've been working on drafting a strategy document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Contributors/Strategy based on research, data, and discussions with the community. This is still very much in draft mode, so I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on the direction we currently plan to take.
Does that sound like a good plan? If you have time to read either document ahead of time, we're also happy to dive into specific questions or topics that are especially interesting to your group.
Thanks, and I look forward to our meeting next week! Sonja
On Sep 8, 2025, at 2:23 PM, Su-Laine Brodsky sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com wrote:
Great ideas, thanks Željko! Also an update: Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning and Data Engineering, will also be at the meeting.
Cheers, Su-Laine
On Sep 8, 2025, at 7:43 AM, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
On Monday, September 8, 2025, Su-Laine Brodsky sulaine@sulainebrodsky.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’d like to put together a detailed agenda
Great. Thank you for doing this!
for our meeting with Sonja Perry on Sept 16. Sonja is a WMF group product manager for the “Contributors” teams ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPerry-WMF). Could you all please send us/me any thoughts on topics or questions you would like to cover?
For this meeting, Sonja asked, "Is there anything specific you'd like us to demo or talk about? I'd be happy to pull data or gather other information if you're interested in talking about something specific."
Support and resource alocation for iphone image and video uploads? (if WMF does not wanna do it can it pay others)
Making Wikipedia app on iphone capable of uploading at least some type of images? Ideally also audio.
Making Wikipedia and Commons App become slightly more generalized in code and with less hard-coded parametars - so it could be used by other MediaWikis?
The areas under Sonja's leadership are:
- Editing
(?futurly known as ‘contributing’, as curently it does not seem to include overseeing, uploading, indexing, sorting… of content)
- Connection (formerly known as “Campaigns”)
- Moderator Tools
- Growth
Best wishes, Su-Laine
Thank you
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