On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Howie Fung hfung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everyone,
I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago).
First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst (contractor, full time). As many of you know, Oliver has been working with us for the past ~2 years as a Community Liaison. As Community Liaison, he has helped provide the critical link between the English Wikipedia editing community and WMF product teams on Page Curation, Echo, AFT, and VisualEditor. Effective immediately, Oliver will be transitioning to the newly created role of Product Analyst. In this role, Oliver will support the Flow team in mapping out the myriad of complex workflows, templates, bots, and other craziness that happens on talk pages, and also providing analytical support to help the Flow team prioritize features. [*]
So a staff member that gets blocked on wiki (By Arbcom no less) is basically getting getting a promotion, Where as volunteers that get blocked and have access to some of our other services such as OTRS get their permissions revoked.
WONDERFUL!