[Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

[The Mono]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jason donovan <jdoe99d at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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We think so little about our community that we have to hire someone to
figure out how to explain it.

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*Mono*
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