[Foundation-l] Plea for candidates: WMF Movement Communications Manager

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/5/2011 6:08:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bnewstead at wikimedia.org writes:


> Another quick note on the Movement Communications Manager posting that we
> are hoping to fill at WMF.  We have a number of applicants, but very, very
> few are from the Wikimedia community. We would really love to fill this 
> role
> with a strong Wikimedian, so if you are interested or know someone who may
> be interested, please apply or reach out to Jay Walsh or myself.
> 
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Movement_Communications_Ma
> nager
> 


The job is written in such a narrow way that it's not very likely you're 
going to get many candidates from within the community sorry.
You want someone with a communications degree, who is a native English 
speaker, can also communicate in a non-English language, and has experience in 
CSS, and templates, and Wikimedia projects in general.

Sorry all of those things just do not go together in my mind.
Even tech savvy people do not necessarily know much to anything about CSS, 
and those that do are not journalists and writers in general.  So that's 
your first strike out.  People who are journalists with degrees in 
communications or that sort of field, do not gravitate toward the Wikimedia projects at 
all.  The few that do, are very very unlikely to be able to create or even 
understand templates.  So that's your second strike out.

99% of native English speakers, perhaps even 99.9% can not communicate even 
minimally in any other language whatsoever.  So that's your third 
strike-out.

It seems the job requirements were written by a computer science 
degree-holder who thinks somehow knowing how to use IRC is a requirement of 
communications outreach....

I see the deadline is in two days for submissions :)
I prophecy doom.

Dubya the artist formerly known as Will Johnson