On 05/14/2014 05:38 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
Hello everyone,
It's a testament to either how awesome our people are… or just how notorious I am for
not announcing things promptly that I noticed this sitting in my Google Docs the other day
with the note from the VisualEditor Team: "terry, we and Alex think this is now good
for you to post, if you're OK with it."
I'm including the letter as is. Please note the date at the end.
…
Hello all,
It is with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Alex Monk[0] has joined the Wikimedia
Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering.
Alex has been a great, wide-ranging and hugely supporting volunteer developer for 2 years
on MediaWiki core and several extensions, including LiquidThreads and Echo, helping us get
rid of outdated extensions once and for all, and fixing general site issues.
Alex will be working with the VisualEditor[3] team to help better integrate the editor
into MediaWiki, and create and improve the editing tools, as well as fixes and support for
MediaWiki core and other extensions as needed.
Alex is currently a student in England, and will be working with us part-time whilst he
continues his studies. In his spare time, Alex was recently part of a team at his college
competing in this year’s Student Robotics[4] competition, and also enjoys playing online
computer games.
We’re delighted that he’s agreed to join us, with his first official day Monday, 10
March.
Please join me in an only-slightly-belated welcome of Alex to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Take care,
Terry
[0]: [[mw:User:Krenair]]
[1]: [[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads]]
[2]: [[mw:Extension:Echo]]
[3]: [[mw:VisualEditor]]
[4]: [[w:en:Student Robotics]]
…
Even if the staff tries to cover up for me, they now know that I'll somehow conspire
to forget to do so until two months later. :-D
Please join us in a very-belated welcome of Alex to the Wikimedia Foundation!
Take care,
terry
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I have for years appreciated Alex Monk and been grateful to have him as
part of our community. He's sensible, calm, thorough, and
straightforward without being mean, and a good person to bounce ideas
around with. This announcement caused me to look up the chronology of
his MediaWiki contributions:
Early 2012: first email in my email archives & #mediawiki chatlogs
mentioning, to, or from Alex (Krenair)
October 2012: Alex becomes an Echo maintainer
December 2012: first discussion of Alex becoming a core maintainer
Feb 2013: Alex becomes a maintainer of MediaWiki core
January 2014: Alex comes to Architecture Summit and a bunch of us get to
meet him for the first time :)
If there are any new MediaWiki hackers out there who think Krenair is
one of the "old hands" because he's an expert: well, he was once a
newbie like you, and you can become an expert like him. And he's not a
bad role model to follow. :) I'm glad Engineering Community Team could
do our bit to help nurture him: now, over to you, Terry. :)
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation