My subscription to this list last night was most fortuitous.
Hi everyone! Happy to be here, and looking forward to working with you all.
Dan
On 24 September 2013 19:30, Howie Fung hfung@wikimedia.org wrote:
Everyone,
I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago).
First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst (contractor, full time). As many of you know, Oliver has been working with us for the past ~2 years as a Community Liaison. As Community Liaison, he has helped provide the critical link between the English Wikipedia editing community and WMF product teams on Page Curation, Echo, AFT, and VisualEditor. Effective immediately, Oliver will be transitioning to the newly created role of Product Analyst. In this role, Oliver will support the Flow team in mapping out the myriad of complex workflows, templates, bots, and other craziness that happens on talk pages, and also providing analytical support to help the Flow team prioritize features. [*]
We are also welcoming Dan Garry (User: Deskana) as Associate Product Manager (contractor, full time), working with Rob Lanphier's Platform team. Dan has been an editor of the English Wikipedia since 2005, a sysop since 2006, bureaucrat since 2007, CheckUser since 2007. . .you get the picture. He will be working with members of the Platform team on a variety of projects, which could include Admin tools, OAuth/OpenID, community code repository. He has a BS in Computer Science and is awaiting his thesis approval for an MS in Integrative Systems Biology.
Both Oliver and Dan are planning on relocating to SF.
Also, please welcome Nick Wilson (User: Quiddity) as Community Liaison (contractor, part time). Nick has been an editor on the English Wikipedia since 2005 (over 37k edits) and has participated in community-lead redesigns of hubs on the English Wikipedia, including the Main Page, Community Portal, Help: Contents, and Portal: Contents. He will be working as the CL for the Flow team, helping to ensure open lines of communication between our editing community and the Flow team, and surfacing issues that are important to our editors. Nick will be working remotely from Victoria, BC, Canada.
Please join me in congratulating Oliver on his new role, and in welcoming Dan and Nick!
Howie
[*] The Product Analyst role is new, and it may be a while before we have it nailed down. To complicate things further, Oliver has been doing Product Analyst-type activities (e.g. template inventory for Page Curation) even as a CL :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l