Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-20 Thread Pine W
Hi, yes, my comments had a broader scope than the original purpose of the thread. I'm not planning to discuss that further here. Pine On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 20/05/2015 00:20, Pine W a écrit : Hmm, I'm not sure that I'd agree that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-20 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 20/05/2015 00:20, Pine W a écrit : Hmm, I'm not sure that I'd agree that everything that WMF does has a community aspect. There's been a lot of discussion about readership that to me seems primarily concerned with fundraising and only secondly concerned with recruiting new contributors and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Pine W
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 bawo...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/19/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Pine W
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. I'm willing to be critical of WMF when I feel that the situation calls for it. That's not the case here. Pine On Tue, May 19,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread MZMcBride
Jonathan Morgan wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride z...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I created that page as a volunteer on personal time with my volunteer account while I was on vacation, so if you don't like the page, you should complain about me, not the Foundation. I don't work on the Community Tech team (although I have applied) and no one instructed me to make it. Nor did I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Brian Wolff
On 5/19/15, Pine W wiki.p...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread MZMcBride
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 14:34 +0200, 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 :) Thanks for making us aware and for

[Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Moushira Elamrawy
Hello, 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 :) Cheers, Moushira ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride z...@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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Moushira Elamrawy
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I'm not sure that I'd agree that everything that WMF does has a community aspect. There's been a lot of discussion about readership that to me seems primarily concerned with fundraising and only secondly concerned with

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread S Page
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:52 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: What is Community Tech? How does it differ from the work the rest of the engineering and product team is doing? Yes, everything WMF does has a community aspect (except facilities?), so it's tricky to know when to highlight

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Pine W
Hmm, I'm not sure that I'd agree that everything that WMF does has a community aspect. There's been a lot of discussion about readership that to me seems primarily concerned with fundraising and only secondly concerned with recruiting new contributors and otherwise serving the community. (I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Pine W
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Demetrio Garcia
Hello Many thank´s Felix El mar, 19/5/15, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com escribió: Asunto: Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas Para: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: martes, 19 de mayo, 2015 09:52 Moushira Elamrawy

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

2015-05-19 Thread Demetrio Garcia
Hi Very well Thank´s a lot Felix El mar, 19/5/15, Moushira Elamrawy melamr...@wikimedia.org escribió: Asunto: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas Para: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: martes, 19 de mayo, 2015 08:34 Hello, This is heads