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
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@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
Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4]
Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5]
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
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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@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@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
Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4]
Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5]
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
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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@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@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@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
Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4]
Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5]
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
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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.
This is great news. S is really excellent at this. Congrats.
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Quim Gil qgil@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.
Exciting news for MediaWiki I think. I had a conversation just last week about tech writing and expressed that the sort of tech writing tasks that were being discussed would not be reasonable for just any random tech writer we brought in on contract. As soon as I was reminded that S was going to be making this transition my fears that staffing would be impossible were gone. :)
I look forward to tricking^Wconvincing S to help with several of the under documented projects I have started or wandered into the middle of helping with.
Bryan
<quote name="Quim Gil" date="2015-01-05" time="23:06:34 +0100">
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].
Awesome news, S!
Congrats S!
And thanks for revealing the mystery of where those cool shirts come from ;-)
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
<quote name="Quim Gil" date="2015-01-05" time="23:06:34 +0100"> > 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].
Awesome news, S!
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On 01/05/2015 04:06 PM, Quim Gil 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. .... Welcome S to your new role and to the Engineering Community team! ...
Congrats, S! :-)
Subbu.
Congrats S! You'll do great at this and MediaWiki sure needs your help. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:59 PM Subramanya Sastry ssastry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/05/2015 04:06 PM, Quim Gil 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. .... Welcome S to your new role and to the Engineering Community team! ...
Congrats, S! :-)
Subbu.
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On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:06 +0100, Quim Gil 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].
I hope I've expressed a longer version of my appreciation in a meeting already - the summary is: Welcome to ECT! Glad to have you on the team!
Cheers, andre
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