So excited to have you on the team, S!
Looking forward to skiing related ECT team offsites too. ;)
Rachel
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It is an honor to announce that S Page[1] has moved
from the Collaboration
(Flow) team to join the WMF Engineering Community team as a Technical
Writer[2]. We were really lucky to find such a great combination of English
communication skills, awareness of MediaWiki documentation pain points,
more-than-basic MediaWiki development experience, and Wikimedia community
mileage. Besides, S is self-driven, based in San Francisco, and accompanies
almost any reaction with a smile, assets of great value in his new
position.
Or in his own words: "S Page, the old guy in the S.F. office in Jhane
Barnes shirts[3], feels compelled to write things down, now he'll be doing
it officially as he transfers from the Collaboration (Flow) team to the
Tech Writer position in the Engineering Community Team. He wrote
documentation for Sun's window systems and the innovative PenPoint
operating system and has a serious crush on software developers. When not
lowercasing the Invasion of Officious Pride Capitals, he lives to ski and
snowboard."
S will be responsible for leading the creation and maintenance of
documentation for third-party application developers and free software
contributors to Wikimedia projects. The three axes that define his initial
technical writing space are
1. Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4]
2. Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5]
3. Work on T2001 (was Bug 1) blocking tasks[6]
While we expect S to write lots of docs, we actually hope that he shines in
his role coordinating technical documentation activities involving
developers and tech-curious editors with different affiliations and levels
of expertise. You’re welcome to make proposals and identify specific tasks
at mw:Talk:Documentation[7], or simply add the #Documentation tag to any
task in Phabricator that affects the documentation.[8]
As if all this would not be enough, S Page's first official assignment is
actually one that he carries from his previous position that fits perfectly
in the Engineering Community goals: deliver a Trello to Phabricator
migration script.[9]
Welcome S to your new role and to the Engineering Community team!
== References ==
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SPage_(WMF)
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team
[3]
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jhane+Barnes+shirt&tbm=isch
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/dev.wikimedia.org
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1107 and more
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2001
[7]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/documentation/
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T821
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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