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

[Patricio Lorente]

Great news! Congratulations and welcome, Jan!

                                        Patricio

2013/4/25 Risker <risker.wp en gmail.com>:
> Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)
>
> Risker
>
>
> On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro <santiagonavarro en 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 en wikimedia.org
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