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

[Béria Lima]

>
> However it is hard to imagine an ideal second language that is not
> European; only Arabic is spoken by a large diverse population with internet
> access.
>

Hindi and Japanese (chinese too but not all of they have internet acess) ;)
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*Béria Lima*
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*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
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2011/4/15 Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>

> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:36,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> >> 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_Manager
> >>>
> >> 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.
> >
> > I understood that they wanted someone who was ideally *not* a native
> > English speaker. That was something that concerned me when I read it,
> > because it looked as if the intention was to disadvantage applicants
> > who had English as a first language. Or did I misunderstand it?
> >
> > "Demonstrated ability to work (speak, read, write at a professional
> > level) effectively in a language other than English (ideally as a
> > native speaker)"
>
> English speakers and Europeans generally, such as you and I, dominate
> most Wikimedia conversations. I doubt anyone could function in this
> position if they didn't understand English, but our hope is to get the
> rest of the world involved.
>
> However it is hard to imagine an ideal second language that is not
> European; only Arabic is spoken by a large diverse population with
> internet access.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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