[Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

[Tom Morris]

On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung <hfung at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
> and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
> member.
>
> James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on
> the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community
> feedback into the development process.
>
> As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
> contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding
> member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement’s
> volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of
> what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the
> “gopher-in-chief” at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped
> found Wikimedia UK in 2005.
>

You forgot one biggie: he has run the London Wikipedia meetup which
first started in June 2004 has now met 57 times.

Hong Kong has met more often, but London is, I believe, the "Original
and Best" (in all 57 varieties).*

* The Heinz joke blatantly stolen from Jon Davies at Wikimedia UK.

Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
planet. Good hire.

-- 
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>