[Wikitech-l] Fwd: WMF Engineering org charts

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM Subject: WMF Engineering org charts To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi folks, as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form. A contractor, Mark Holmquist, has been working on an open source tool for this the last few weeks to do this. It's still highly experimental. In particular, we're exploring alternative layout options (full horizontal only works well for small org charts). Don't be surprised if it breaks or behaves weirdly, and Mark may be making changes to the labs setup at any time. Most importantly, it's only engineering right now. I've plopped in a couple of examples for the other depts, but ignore those until they're built out, provided my colleagues are happy with the tool. This is not authoritative, and there are almost certainly errors, beyond the aforementioned omission of all other departments. :) Explanations: * The little flags represent locations. Typically they're ccTLD country codes, except for SF for the SF office. * Mousing over a node in the chart gives you extended information. * (E) = employee, (C) = contractor * Dashed border = this is a contractor role that's not part of the overall capacity plan and funded out of the general "outside contractor services" budget The tool makes it possible to have unique URLs for any subset view of the chart, and that's the best way to use it. These are the departments in engineering/product: TechOps: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f5e806d0b3d0d0f2e000009 Features: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f5e806c0b3d0d0f2e000003 Platform: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f5e806c0b3d0d0f2e000007 Mobile: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f6cd85eeef7b93804000002 I18N/R&D: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f6cff2d9f293f1b13000001 Product: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f6d01199f293f1b13000003 All of engineering: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org:8888/#of-unit-box-for-4f5e806c0b3d0d0f2e000002 Code is currently here and will be moved to WMF git repo soon: http://code.marktraceur.info/?p=wmf-orgchart;a=summary If you'd like to be involved or provide detailed feedback for improvement, please post to the talk page here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_tools/Org_chart_tool All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate