Yay! This is great news! I can't think of anyone that would be better for
this job.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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
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