[Wikimedia-l] Announcing four new Community Liaisons (Product)

[Steven Zhang]

Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure you will all do a great job!

Steven Zhang

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> On 20/06/2013, at 4:04 am, Philippe Beaudette <philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Howie and I are pleased to announce the onboarding of four new community
> liaisons for the product team.  Howie has generously allowed me to send
> this email, since their initial tasking will be to VisualEditor and the
> Change Management team, working with me.  At the conclusion of the
> deployment of VisualEditor, they will be assigned as community liaisons to
> other groups within the product team.
> 
> Please welcome four new contractors:  Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder,
> Patrick Earley, and (a returning face) Keegan Peterzell.
> 
> These positions are temporary, contract-based positions, each with an
> initial term of roughly 90 days.  Below, I've pasted below a brief summary
> of each of the four so that you can get to know them.  I know you'll join
> me in wishing them the best with their new work!
> pb
> 
> ___________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> *Erica / Elitre*
> Erica will be initially primarily tasked with supporting the deployment on
> Italian Wikipedia, but will also be helping out with other wikis as well.
> She edits as User:Elitre <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Elitre> on
> the Italian Wikipedia.  Born and raised in Cosenza, Italy, she graduated
> from Università della Calabria (with a Master's degree in Foreign Languages
> and Literature), and now lives in Bologna.  Her favorite work experience so
> far was last year with lettera27 Foundation, where she wrote case studies
> for the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge projects (go GLAMs!) and hunted for
> more free contents and institutions to involve (She's been involved with
> the Wikimedia Movement and has evangelized about our projects since 2005).
> She's  fond of: playing life/construction and management videogames, taking
> pictures, making cheesecakes, studying and writing about Italian folklore -
> notably the Palio di Siena, listening to symphonic metal/rock.
> 
> She's in a romantic relationship with OTRS (yes, you read that right - she
> was once dubbed "romantic and dreadful" because of this) since 2006 which,
> she points out, is longer than her relationship with her boyfriend: she met
> him later.
> 
> 
> *Sherry / WhatamIdoing*
> Some of you know her well, if nothing else, for her descriptive username ("
> WhatamIdoing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WhatamIdoing>").  She
> writes:
> 
> *My name is Sherry Snyder, better known as "WhatamIdoing" on several
> English-speaking projects.  My culinary quest for the summer is a low-sugar
> chocolate peanut butter, which those of you with European tendencies should
> interpret as "like Nutella, only better."  (In response to this, my husband
> says, "POV-inline, dubious - discuss?")  I've been a Wikipedian since
> 2007.  I am a metapedian by nature and a typo fixer by compulsion.  I'm
> still a little amazed that the WMF hired me for this project and happy to
> be joining the team that is trying to make the transition to VisualEditor
> be more successful and less surprising.
> *
> 
> Sherry will be supporting the deployment on the English Wikipedia and
> non-English speaking projects to be assigned still.  She was a huge help
> during the development of the Terms of Use, and I'm looking forward to
> working with her.
> 
> 
> *Patrick / The Interior*
> Patrick is from Kamloops, British Columbia (yes, another Canadian!), a
> logging and cattle town in the Interior of the province.  He edits enwiki
> as "The Interior <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Interior>".  He
> has studied library science and film, and has worked a variety of
> interesting jobs so far, including wildland firefighting, documentary
> filmmaking, treeplanting, sorting books at a second hand store,
> cataloguing, screenwriting, teaching English in Taiwan and, now, liaising
> for the WMF! He currently lives in Vancouver in the aptly named Mount
> Pleasant neighbourhood.  He wishes to point out that he uses Canadian
> spelling.  :P
> 
> Patrick has been a Wikipedia editor since 2008. He loves working on
> geography and both natural and human history.  He has worked with the
> Education Program, hopes to be more involved in GLAM projects in the
> future, and is very interested in the Wikipedia/library interface.  Patrick
> will be focused on non-English speaking wikis.
> 
> *Keegan*
> Some of you will remember that
> Keegan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan> previously
> worked with us  on the 2010 Fundraiser.  He has been editing since 2005,
> and has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of
> Tennessee-Chattanooga.  An English Wikipedia administrator, oversighter,
> and CheckUser, he served a year-long appointment to the audit subcommittee
> for 2011-2012.
> 
> Globally he is a volunteer response team leader (OTRS admin) and member of
> the Communications committee.
> 
> He says that he's not an article writer, so he tries to give back in other
> ways. Keegan will be reprising his role from the 2010 fundraiser, where he
> was a workhorse in communicating with non-English wikis.
> ___________________
> Philippe Beaudette
> Director, Community Advocacy
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> 
> 415-839-6885, x 6643
> 
> philippe at wikimedia.org
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