Hi MZMcBride,
I believe that this team is still early in its development. Lila's stated
intention for it is that the team will cater to the needs and wishes of
power users and administrators. There is quite a backlog of projects that
this team could tackle. For example, I am frequently hearing about issues
with getting large media files to upload to Commons properly, and perhaps
this team could work on that problem in coordination with the multimedia
team. I think that I also heard Lila say that this team will work on
improving administrator tools.
I agree that it would be nice to know how this team will be resourced. My
understanding is that we will have a better sense of this when the next,
and possibly last, WMF Annual Plan is published.
HTH,
Pine
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Moushira Elamrawy wrote:
This is heads up that Kaldari has kindly started a
page for community tech
projects ideas:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech_project_ideas.
Feel free to check and add your wishlist :)
Hi.
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.
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.
MZMcBride
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