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.p...@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 <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
