Hi Dan!

In WikiVote! we're calling these guys 'facilitators' and growing them from school teachers. I would say that this question belongs to mediawiki-enterprise [1] mailing lists, try to ask that there.

Also I must warn you that a good facilitator is not enough for the wiki growth. For that you need proper advertisement of your wiki and SEO: the competence that facilitator usually don't have.

For hiring I would try online-facilitation group [2] and of course the all-mighty LinkedIn.

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise [2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/ ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Dan Fisher danfisher261@gmail.com wrote:

This page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community_manager says: *- The online community manager role is a growing and developing profession. People in this position work to build, grow and manage communities around a brand or cause.*

That's the kind of person I want to hire. They would do what they can to increase the number of editors on my wiki and create a community on the site - something I've not managed to do myself. They would look into making things easy for new editors, from converting readers into editors and creating a positive social atmosphere on the wiki. It would be helpful for them to also be subject matter experts although its not required.

Has anyone here done something like? If so, can you share your experiences? And do you have any tips on finding a person who would be really good at this role?

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