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

[Risker]

Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)

Risker


On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro <santiagonavarro at wikimedia.org.es>wrote:

> 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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>
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> Santiago Navarro
> Wikimedia España
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