Since the team doesn't even exist yet, it's probably going to be a bit
nebulous for now. According to the announcements so far:
"The Community Tech team is focused on meeting the needs of active
contributors to Wikipedia and the sister projects for improved,
expert-focused curation and moderation tools. The creation of the Community
Tech team is a direct outcome of requests from core contributors for
improved support for moderation tools, bots, and the other features that
help the Wikimedia projects succeed. The team will work closely with the
community, through the Community Engagement department, to define their
roadmap and deliverables."
... and ...
"... This includes a Community Tech team dedicated to supporting tools for
core contributors ..."
Kaldari
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps we could ask Damon for clarification about the
team's scope of
work, although my hunch is that this is still being discussed internally.
I'm boldly pinging him (:
Pine
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/19/15, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
MZ, I think we should be grateful that WMF is
dedicating resources to
power
> users, make suggestions to them on what we most want them to work on,
and
leave it
at that.
Isn't part of the criticism of this thread that the team has unclear
scope? Is the WMF actually dedicating resources to power users?
From where I'm sitting, it looks like the every special interest group
is happy that community tech is being dedicated to them. Some people
seem to think its going to be creating bots for communities that can't
do it themselves, maintaining existing bots, provide technical support
for grant requests, fix bug requests primarily affecting elite users
fix bug requests primarily affecting unloved sister projects or even
(earlier in this thread) fix uploading of large files.
Community-tech is not going to fix everything for everyone. Eventually
people will realize this, and its much better to be clear on the scope
up front rather then have a bunch of very disappointed users later. I
appreciate that the team is just getting off the ground, but
presumably there is some notion of what its actually going to do,
otherwise hiring for the team would be really hard. Or if it is really
trying to do everything, I predict that not working out well.
--bawolff
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