Luis, I was aso curious if the moderation team plans to hire design resources.
Thanks Vibha On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jdlrob...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> > I'm just troubled by some of the language used here, and elsewhere, >> which >> > describes a "fear" of more users. I can't help but wonder how many >> companies >> > or services would readily welcome a "massive influx of users." How will >> > Wikipedia or Commons succeed if we're afraid growth? >> >> +1. How we change this culture is the holy grail of Wikimedia's >> future. Unless we change this, our project will die imo. I was really >> saddened to see mobile uploads disappear from web - we had a lot of >> spam yes but we also had people posting never before available photos >> of diseases [1]. Our communities reaction seems to be to push back on >> influxes of new edits which makes me feel we should be spending more >> time on moderation tools - but so far I don't see any hint that this >> will become a focus. This is a bigger problem than web and apps but so >> far we see this more than most... I think this is something we'd have >> to convince Lila is a good use of our time... > > > Lila is convinced it is a good use of time; that's why tools for community > needs was in the Call To Action. And that's why we announced the creation > of a Community Tech team yesterday (see wikimedia-l). Details and > prioritization are still to be fleshed out (they can't tackle everything at > once!) but moderation tools are definitely one of the things the team could > tackle. > > Luis > > -- > Luis Villa > Sr. Director of Community Engagement > Wikimedia Foundation > *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely > share in the sum of all knowledge.* > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
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