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

Thu Jun 20 17:18:40 UTC 2013

Congratulations all & good luck..

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Steven Zhang <cro0016 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure you will all do a
> great job!
>
> Steven Zhang
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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