I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment contract with us will end on April 1, 2010.
Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a contractor shepherding two important projects: the reader/contributor survey, which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of responses, and the Wikimania 2008 postmortem analysis. She's also project managed the fundraiser translation work, the development of the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal we're actively working on.
Naoko has worked as a Senior Program Manger and Project Manager for Yahoo! Mail, Postini, and Cygnus Solutions. She has an MA in International Development Policy from Stanford University and an MS in Economics from Kobe University in Japan. She's a native speaker of Japanese.
I'm very pleased that Naoko has agreed to lead this important initiative. Please join me in welcoming her!
Welcome Naoko :)
I'm sure you will do a great job in your new position.
All the best,
James
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment contract with us will end on April 1, 2010.
Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a contractor shepherding two important projects: the reader/contributor survey, which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of responses, and the Wikimania 2008 postmortem analysis. She's also project managed the fundraiser translation work, the development of the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal we're actively working on.
Naoko has worked as a Senior Program Manger and Project Manager for Yahoo! Mail, Postini, and Cygnus Solutions. She has an MA in International Development Policy from Stanford University and an MS in Economics from Kobe University in Japan. She's a native speaker of Japanese.
I'm very pleased that Naoko has agreed to lead this important initiative. Please join me in welcoming her! -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hoi, Naoko welcome. Usability is a subject that is also of a particular importance to the "down stream" users of MediaWiki. Organisations like UNICEF, Kennisnet, Commonwealth of Learning and many others are investing and have invested in improved usability. I hope you will be interested in leveraging all this hard word and make it count even more. The tapes of the usability studies of UNICEF, who are in English by the way, are available to people working on usability. There is even a really good possibility for you to make use of the Tanzanian team who executed the UNICEF studies. There are many more opportunities...
Given the size of the grant, there is this opportunity to make sure that the usability effort will not only lead to open source but also to open collaboration. Thanks, GerardM
2008/12/6 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment contract with us will end on April 1, 2010.
Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a contractor shepherding two important projects: the reader/contributor survey, which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of responses, and the Wikimania 2008 postmortem analysis. She's also project managed the fundraiser translation work, the development of the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal we're actively working on.
Naoko has worked as a Senior Program Manger and Project Manager for Yahoo! Mail, Postini, and Cygnus Solutions. She has an MA in International Development Policy from Stanford University and an MS in Economics from Kobe University in Japan. She's a native speaker of Japanese.
I'm very pleased that Naoko has agreed to lead this important initiative. Please join me in welcoming her! -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, Naoko welcome. Usability is a subject that is also of a particular importance to the "down stream" users of MediaWiki. Organisations like UNICEF, Kennisnet, Commonwealth of Learning and many others are investing and have invested in improved usability. I hope you will be interested in leveraging all this hard word and make it count even more. The tapes of the usability studies of UNICEF, who are in English by the way, are available to people working on usability. There is even a really good possibility for you to make use of the Tanzanian team who executed the UNICEF studies. There are many more opportunities...
Given the size of the grant, there is this opportunity to make sure that the usability effort will not only lead to open source but also to open collaboration. Thanks, GerardM
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Gerard. We definitely plan to study the usability research done by other organizations. Erik and I are in touch with Merrick, and we are studying UNICEF's usability study methodology and hope to view the recording of the actual usability test. The funding for this project covers our own usability test. This usability test along with the studies done by UNICEF and other organizations you had mentioned would provide us the data for us to measure the gap between existing usability and behavioral barrier in editing articles. Then we carefully need to pick and choose the appropriate changes to accommodate new users and translate them into the the best technology we can offer, while making sure the changes are acceptable to existing users at the same time. The first three months are dedicated for forming the team, commissioning the usability test, and defining requirements. The plan is to open up the newly developed software in the test and lab environments for the early feedback for the new users and the community.
I look forward to working with you and everyone in the Wikimedia community to reduce the barriers and bring in new editors to grow the collective knowledge on Wikimedia projects.
- Naoko
2008/12/6 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation is hiring Naoko Komura as Program Manager for the Stanton Foundation Usability Project. She will begin work on January 2, 2009, and her employment contract with us will end on April 1, 2010.
Naoko has worked for us in the past three months as a contractor shepherding two important projects: the reader/contributor survey, which was successfully launched and received tens of thousands of responses, and the Wikimania 2008 postmortem analysis. She's also project managed the fundraiser translation work, the development of the Stanton Foundation grant proposal, and another grant proposal we're actively working on.
Naoko has worked as a Senior Program Manger and Project Manager for Yahoo! Mail, Postini, and Cygnus Solutions. She has an MA in International Development Policy from Stanford University and an MS in Economics from Kobe University in Japan. She's a native speaker of Japanese.
I'm very pleased that Naoko has agreed to lead this important initiative. Please join me in welcoming her! -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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