On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)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
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>