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

Thu Jun 20 19:11:52 UTC 2013

Congratulations all :)

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Kevin Gorman

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury <nh at nhasive.com>wrote:

> 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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