FYI - new relevant member working on data-type stuff :)
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From: Oona Castro <ocastro(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:09 AM
Subject: [Wmfall] Welcome Henrique Andrade! (our new data consultant for
the Brazil Catalyst Program)
To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I'm glad to announce our new hire in Brazil, Henrique Andrade, who will be
a Data and Experiments consultant. The position was created to 1) better
track/measure the impact and results of our activities in Brazil; and also
to 2) support the community with data so every change on policies or
engagement campaigns are carefully measured, so all can make more data
driven decisions.
Henrique Andrade is an Information Technology (IT) professional and teacher
of Web Technologies, Distance Learning Skills, Entrepreneurship and Digital
Culture for graduate and undergraduate studants, and a researcher who is
interested in free software, free culture, distance learning,
entrepreneurship and databases.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Information Systems degree in UNIRIO
(Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and is a Masters's
student in Computing and Society in the Computing and Systems Engineering
Program, COPPE/UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). He has also
taken undergratuate course in Business at UFRRJ (Federal University of the
Countryside of Rio de Janeiro).
Henrique has been the DBA (DataBase Administrator) at UNIRIO and the Lead
Developer of e-UNI (eletronic UNIversity), a Learning Management System
customized for universities developed over the free software Moodle
platform. He is a registered user of Wikipedia since 2009, and is familiar
with wikis since 2003, using TWiki in nationwide projects.
Henrique has also a lot of experience in public speaking, and has spoken in
many major Brazilian IT conferences, such as FISL, LATINOWARE, CONSEGI,
ENTI and CSBC. He is been part of Brazillians free software communities,
such as PSL-Brasil and SLRJ and was a member of the Free Software
Implementation Technical Committee of the Brazilian Federal Government.
Since life is not only made of working hours, Henrique also likes to brew
his own beer (and drink it, I guess!) and plays basketball at the Campo
Grande Athletic Club amatour team (we're not going into details on physical
profile here, but I can assure that thanks to him we considerably increased
the average height of the Brazilian team).
I wish Henrique very good luck on his job. Let's welcome him and I hope we
can all work together on the challenges we'll face to improve our data
analyses capacities. He went through a long hiring process and I warmly
welcome him and wish him a great time with us and a lot of collaboration
across teams.
About his name pronnounciation (as many asked us): "Enricke" - stress on
"i" and you don't need to pronounce the "h", just ignore it.
Please find below more about the job position and the background behind it.
You'll also find more details about what he's expected to do, how the
process took place and so on in the office Wiki
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ocastro/Hirings/Henrique_Andrade
Regards
Oona
Background
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community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California,
the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
primarily through donations and grants. The Wikimedia Foundation was
created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister
projects. It currently employs 150 staff members. Wikimedia works with
local chapter organizations in 39 countries or regions to advance the
mission of the Wikimedia movement.
How can we experiment, test and track solutions and best practices among
the editing community about the social norms, policies, and initiatives
that will create renewed openness and promote general community health? How
can we better fulfill the mission statement of the Foundation and attract
more editors, especially from under-represented demographics? What type of
initiative better fits improvements to be made and how can we make sure
they are reaching our expected goals? What are and how to develop new tools
for the community to make their editing experience better?
The need for this position emerged from a debate with the Brazilian
community regarding WMF activities in
Brazil<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Programa_Catalisador_do_Bras…nt>.
While we had previously planned to have a community organizer, to catalyse
processes which had been stagnant in the Portuguese Wikimedia projects, the
community demanded as a priority position to provide support in collecting
data and allowing data driven decisions to be taken.
The Portuguese Wikipedia has been seen significant decrease of active
editors in the last 2 years – While the average of active editors was of
1678 per month in 2010, in 2011 this average was of 1588 – a decrease of
5,4%. The Brazil Catalyst Project was created to contribute enabling a
better environment so recovering losses and even growing becomes possible.
The Brazil Catalyst Program contractors, together with the community, have
worked throughout a planning of activities that would help improvements on
the Portuguese Wikipedia regarding collaboration, attracting new editors,
retaining new editors as well as improving quality of content. However, the
Brazil team has very much little data to 1) measure the impact of the its
projects and work; 2) identify pros and cons on experiments and changes on
the Portuguese Wikpedia; 3) lead rational and data driven discussions on
the impact of projects and policies.
For this reason, we agreed on hiring a data and experiment analyst, in
order to provide us with qualified information and data to develop projects
and address changes.
What will be Henrique's main goals and duties?
We expect Henrique to support the community and the Brazil Catalyst Program
contractors in tracking results of our actions, projects and experiments,
so we can better analyse and learn from them. Sometimes we develop
activities with little efforts to measure their impact and results in the
short and middle term, and we also struggle with data that may contribute
to long term results analyses.
The purpose of his job is therefore to work closely with the community, the
WMF staff and the Brazil Catalyst Program contractors in creating ways of
measuring the impact or our work and experiments, as well as identifying
trends within the community and editor engagement. He is meant to do that
by turning ideas from the community into some kind of reasonable
experimental design and by replacing anecdotes on the impact of feature or
policy changes with basic empirical evidence. We also expect he'll engage
with the community (and with volunteers already engaged in data analyses)
in order to build a plan for the next years and deploy it in a
collaborative way.
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