[WikiEN-l] Jobs at Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 12/02/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not really. If you only have one person per job, they are all going to
> be in charge of their job. There is only one person looking after the
> office, so they are the Office Manager. There's only one person
> handling business development, so they are the Head of Business
> Development. I guess you could just call Kul "Business Developer", but
> I imagine the big titles are handed out in order to make it easier if
> more staff are hired that need to report to an existing member of
> staff... and because people like to have a big title, of course.


Also, it's better having a business card that says "Head of Business
Development" rather than "Peon". Alison Wheeler gets in a lot of doors
just with the title "Chair, Wikimedia UK", and that's a voluntary
position. Titles are important.


- d.