Hello African Wikimedia Developers Group!

I have heard great things about you from Derek and Felix in the last few months and hope that I can hire one of you to work on project during the month of June. I have included the job description in the second half of this email.

If you would like to apply, please send me an email off-list with your CV and a link to a mobile-friendly gadget you have created, gerrit commits, or a link to a GitHub repository. I need resumes by Thursday, May 17th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Kacie

Kacie Harold

Grants Program Officer

Wikimedia Foundation

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Title: Contract Front End/UX Engineer (FormWizard)

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Contract UX/Front End Engineer for a short project to make usability improvements to FormWizard. The contract engineer will work independently with some guidance from members of the the Community Resources, Design and Engineering teams.

FormWizard is currently used on the Grants portal as a way to create new grant proposals. This tool doesn’t, however, work on mobile, which makes starting a grant proposal from a mobile device almost impossible. The engineer working on this project will support Foundation efforts to connect with users in emerging communities, and engaging newcomers unfamiliar with wiki environment.

The contract engineer will make the following improvements to FormWizard:

Fixes:

FormWizard should work on mobile phones
FormWizard should work for non-logged in users
Migrate code to MediaWiki extension
Migrate to OOjs UI
New features (nice to have):
Simplify the workflow to register a new account through FormWizard

Skills:

Required: Front end/UX engineer (CSS, javascript, knowledge of MediaWiki software).
Nice to have: familiarity with Lua

Application instructions: Please include a link to a mobile-friendly gadget you have created, gerrit commits, or a link to a GitHub repository.

Estimated time: 40 to 60 hours over 4 weeks.

Project dates: June 1 - June 30