[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

[Oliver Keyes]

I'm happy to write something up, as the most recent community-sourced hire,
if my bosses and comms are okay with it :).

On 10 January 2012 21:59, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 21:26, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Personal perspectives are perhaps not very suitable for the "official
> > blog" (but may be),
>
> Ah. OK. I confess I'm more of a Signpost reader than of the blog, so I
> hadn't thought of it having a particular style or code.
>
> > anyway engineering reports are being published
> > regularly since a while and they're a very good way to know what's going
> > on at least in the technology department, without having to read MiB of
> > text.
>
> Yes. To clarify, it's not that I feel a sense of "I don't know what
> they get up to in that office"... I'm sure most things I'd be
> interested to know I could find out with judicious searching. I'm
> thinking more along the lines of not just putting names to faces but
> also a greater insight into what their current working day is like and
> projects of note.
>
> Maybe forget the blog and Signpost. If we go here:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors
>
> We see that some staff don't yet have pictures. I would respect the
> choice of anyone who didn't want a pic up but they do go a long way in
> helping someone retain a name in their mind. Also some of the names
> are wikified but clicking through doesn't take you to anything
> substantive in some cases. Other names are not wikified at all. Some
> of the job titles are wikified and clicking takes you through to the
> job spec, which is great... but not all have that.
>
> So any work that could be done to standardise the page somewhat would
> be most welcome. And I would definitely welcome it if staff were to
> project a bit of their personality in some kind of statement of their
> own. It all adds to that sense of the Foundation being approachable
> folk working to help us volunteers.
>
> What I'm calling for, basically, is efforts to retain that feeling
> that you knew the staff which was easy to achieve when numbers were so
> small and will naturally lessen as the organisation grows, but a
> lessening which can be mitigated to some degree.
>
> Bodnotbod
>
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation