[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

[Jason donovan]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> David Gerard wrote:
> > On 1 March 2011 19:35, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm curious how
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Storyteller
> >> fits in with Wikimedia's mission or its strategic plan.
> >
> > It's pretty much directly answered right there on the linked page, for
> > anyone else who's wondering.
> >
> > What bit of the page wasn't clear?
>
> The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's
> mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a
> Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite
> amount
> of resources for staff hires; I just don't see how this passes any type of
> reasonable cost/benefit analysis.
>
> If it's the outside world's perception of Wikimedia that is the underlying
> concern, I think hiring someone whose job description includes "make
> something incredibly beautiful every month" might be more detrimental to
> Wikimedia's image and mission than anything else. There are a lot of people
> who would be (more) willing to donate to Wikimedia if they didn't feel
> their
> donations would be spent like this, in my view.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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+1 for calling the title 'Propaganda Minister'. Raconteur would be my second
choice.