Hoi, I have blogged about one of the "temporary" staff on my blog. While it is nice to have a list on meta, it makes more sense to have somewhere one list of staff permanent, contract, temporary... Fractured lists prevent people from finding those they need.
I was looking for the person who is involved in documentation. I wanted to learn if he knew that the software behind translatewiki.net is used for the KDE documentation. The current "some animals are more equal then others" approach sucks.
There are arguments about them and us and this opaque presentation hinders the adoption of (new) people in our community. Personally I do not care who is permanent or contract, it is irrelevant to me. I care to be able to find and ask the right person the questions that I have. Thanks, GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/10/roan-is-temp-staff-at-wikimedia....
On 16 October 2010 17:38, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, I just had a look at the staff page at http://wikimediafoundation.organd I find many of the staff are just not there to be found. While the
community
is this big mass of people, it would be really valuable to have a place
with
a picture, a short cv and an organogram. Much of it is there but it is
not
kept up to date.
Contractors are not listed there. A lot of "staff" fall into this category. There are various reasons why they aren't listed there.
While there is no "official" contractor list, there is a community-run effort to keep track of this group on Meta[0].
It is really important that people who work for the WMF are knowable. The notion that only permanent staff should be included is imho not helpful, some are quite visible and important to the community as well. Thanks,
I agree wholeheartedly.
-Chad
[0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors
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