Congratulations, S! I'm looking forward to working with you in your new
role.
Gabriel
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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