[Wikitech-l] S Page debuts as Technical Writer

It is an honor to announce that S Page[1] has moved from the Collaboration (Flow) team to join the WMF Engineering Community team as a Technical Writer[2]. We were really lucky to find such a great combination of English communication skills, awareness of MediaWiki documentation pain points, more-than-basic MediaWiki development experience, and Wikimedia community mileage. Besides, S is self-driven, based in San Francisco, and accompanies almost any reaction with a smile, assets of great value in his new position. Or in his own words: "S Page, the old guy in the S.F. office in Jhane Barnes shirts[3], feels compelled to write things down, now he'll be doing it officially as he transfers from the Collaboration (Flow) team to the Tech Writer position in the Engineering Community Team. He wrote documentation for Sun's window systems and the innovative PenPoint operating system and has a serious crush on software developers. When not lowercasing the Invasion of Officious Pride Capitals, he lives to ski and snowboard." S will be responsible for leading the creation and maintenance of documentation for third-party application developers and free software contributors to Wikimedia projects. The three axes that define his initial technical writing space are 1. Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4] 2. Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5] 3. Work on T2001 (was Bug 1) blocking tasks[6] While we expect S to write lots of docs, we actually hope that he shines in his role coordinating technical documentation activities involving developers and tech-curious editors with different affiliations and levels of expertise. You’re welcome to make proposals and identify specific tasks at mw:Talk:Documentation[7], or simply add the #Documentation tag to any task in Phabricator that affects the documentation.[8] As if all this would not be enough, S Page's first official assignment is actually one that he carries from his previous position that fits perfectly in the Engineering Community goals: deliver a Trello to Phabricator migration script.[9] Welcome S to your new role and to the Engineering Community team! == References == [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SPage_(WMF) [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=Jhane+Barnes+shirt&tbm=isch [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/dev.wikimedia.org [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1107 and more [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2001 [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/documentation/ [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T821 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil