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 Wikimedia community? That would be pretty worrying. > Really? It's worrying that the Wikimedia Foundation would devote design and development resources towards projects that don't directly benefit 5+/month editors?* Like, for example, readers? > > 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. > > Yes, you are misunderstanding. I'm sorry the team fails to impress you. The community tech team is a product of the recent Engineering reorganization, and I assume our colleagues will make an announcement once the team is fully assembled. In the meantime, they're eliciting ideas. What exactly is so insulting about a new team, still in the process of being formed, eliciting ideas for projects to work on? *"active Wikimedia editors" mentioned on the meta page -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
