Thanks MZMcBride for your note -- I absolutely sympathize with anyone who's trying to keep up to speed on everything going on at Wikimedia. We're all trying to strike a good balance in terms of what's useful, relevant, interesting, and I hope we are generally getting it fairly close to correct.
As a general rule we only announce new staff and those contractors who are expected to interact significantly with the community. We don't announce all PT and short-term people, because we don't think it makes sense to do that. Whenever anyone has a question that is not answered by a general announcement there are many options available for interaction with folks like Philippe and Cary and Guillaume etc. on IRC and by e-mail, and you should feel free to ask questions whenever you like. If someone doesn't have direct access to other staff I can always be contacted directly if there is a question about personnel. Best, -Daniel Phelps Human Resources On Jun 1, 2010, at 5:26 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi -- > > I just noticed a wikimedia.org e-mail address that I didn't recognize; I > assume it belongs to a new contractor. It reminded me that the announcement > process for contractors (and other non-permanent staff) is still > non-existent. > > The last time I asked about this, I was told that I should be picking up > clues from the way people sign blog posts and gathering other pieces of > information (like e-mail address changes) in order to figure out who's > working on what. I don't think this is acceptable. > > Is it possible to have some sort of standardized announcement process and > tracking system of Wikimedia's contractors? They're not tracked at the > Wikimedia Foundation's Staff page[1] and I don't know of any public place > where they're announced. Specifically, it would be nice to know who's been > hired, what they're working on, etc. > > It's possible that there are announcements being made and I've simply been > missing them, but that would be surprising to me and would indicate a > problem of a different nature. > > Thanks. > > MZMcBride > > [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
