Hi all,

It’s my pleasure to announce that Tilman Bayer is joining the Foundation’s Product & Strategy department as Senior Analyst. I would like to thank Katherine Maher for supporting and helping to prepare this move from the Communications department.

Tilman has been working with us since July 2011, and has been a Wikipedian since 2003. He is leading the development of the organization’s new quarterly report, and its integration with the quarterly review process. In his role in Communications, he has already coordinated our reports in their previous monthly format, and has kept detailed public minutes for the majority of quarterly reviews at WMF. He will continue to do so.

He will ensure we not only continually refine and improve the quarterly goalsetting, review and reporting processes, but can also look for opportunities to highlight lessons learned - successes and failures - across the organization and the Wikimedia communities, so these can meaningfully inform our strategy.

In addition, Tilman will bring his many years of experience as a volunteer and his insight into the many complexities and intricacies of the Wikimedia universe to bear with product-related research and analysis questions, supporting Product Managers and other team members as we dig into hard problems that benefit from his expertise, e.g. simplification of templates, translation tools, cross-wiki messaging tools, mathematics editing, etc.

Tilman was previously responsible for many day-to-day communications responsibilities and supported or led key communications initiatives. These responsibilities will be transitioned to other Communications team members, including Fabrice Florin who is joining the team for 6 months (separate announcement to follow).

Please join me in congratulating Tilman to this new role. Tilman - thank you for taking this on; I look forward to continuing our work together!

Sincerely,

Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation