[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Tilman Bayer officially joins the Wikimedia Foundation staff

[Naveen Francis]

Congrats HaeB !!!
Really a good news for movement communications.

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Thanks,
naveenpf

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) <
bnewstead at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Tilman Bayer has officially joined the
> Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development team as Senior Operations Analyst
> focused on movement communications starting this week. He has just
> relocated to SF after receiving his work visa.
>
> As most of you will be aware, Tilman has been working in the
> communications team focusing on movement communications since last July, as
> a remote contractor based in Germany. He has been instrumental in the
> enhancement to our monthly reporting, continued improvement to our blogging
> and the development of our last annual report among other things. Tilman
> and Dario Taraborelli co-founded and continues to edit the monthly
> Wikimedia research newsletter. In particular, I'd like to highlight his
> work to get our reports translated, so that they are more accessible for
> the whole community.
>
> In his new role as a staff member, Tilman will continue to work closely
> with the communications team in support of the whole foundation team, e.g.
> working on the WMF blog, editing the WMF monthly reports and annual report,
> and developing multi-lingual communications solutions . His role will now
> include the analysis of quantitative data and other research to understand
> and address movement communication challenges.  He will work on projects to
> improve our communications systems in partnership with other groups in the
> Foundation.  He will report to me for the short term, but will transition
> to reporting to our soon to be announced Director, Global Learning and
> Grantmaking.
>
> As User:HaeB, Tilman has been active in both the German and English
> Wikipedia since 2003. He was a checkuser on the German Wikipedia for half a
> decade, and until joining WMF last year was the editor-in-chief of the
> Wikipedia Signpost, the English Wikipedia's community newsletter.  He holds
> degrees in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and the University
> of Bonn.
>
> Please join me in welcoming Tilman to the Wikimedia Foundation team in San
> Francisco.
>
> Best,
> Barry
>
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> Barry Newstead
> Chief Global Development Officer
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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