[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Jan Eissfeldt joins Wikimedia Foundation as Community Advocate

[Santi Navarro]

Welcome Jan!

> Dear all,
>
> I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's
> Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose
> work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites.  Jan, who
> made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early
> 2004
> and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will
> help
> us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in
> social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile.  His main
> theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This
> combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing
> analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and Spanish
> projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general.
> English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he
> edited the Signpost's feature News & Notes.
>
> The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the
> Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates
> strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that
> the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's
> frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work, and
> the other activities of the Foundation.  In our attempts to learn more
> about these communities, get their input during the formation of
> initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan
> will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).
>
> Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also
> work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to
> organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.
>
> Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the
> movement for years!
>
> pb
> ___________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
> 415-839-6885, x 6643
>
> philippe at wikimedia.org
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-- 
Santiago Navarro
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es/