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@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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