I'm happy to write something up, as the most recent community-sourced hire, if my bosses and comms are okay with it :).
On 10 January 2012 21:59, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 21:26, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Personal perspectives are perhaps not very suitable for the "official > > blog" (but may be), > > Ah. OK. I confess I'm more of a Signpost reader than of the blog, so I > hadn't thought of it having a particular style or code. > > > anyway engineering reports are being published > > regularly since a while and they're a very good way to know what's going > > on at least in the technology department, without having to read MiB of > > text. > > Yes. To clarify, it's not that I feel a sense of "I don't know what > they get up to in that office"... I'm sure most things I'd be > interested to know I could find out with judicious searching. I'm > thinking more along the lines of not just putting names to faces but > also a greater insight into what their current working day is like and > projects of note. > > Maybe forget the blog and Signpost. If we go here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors > > We see that some staff don't yet have pictures. I would respect the > choice of anyone who didn't want a pic up but they do go a long way in > helping someone retain a name in their mind. Also some of the names > are wikified but clicking through doesn't take you to anything > substantive in some cases. Other names are not wikified at all. Some > of the job titles are wikified and clicking takes you through to the > job spec, which is great... but not all have that. > > So any work that could be done to standardise the page somewhat would > be most welcome. And I would definitely welcome it if staff were to > project a bit of their personality in some kind of statement of their > own. It all adds to that sense of the Foundation being approachable > folk working to help us volunteers. > > What I'm calling for, basically, is efforts to retain that feeling > that you knew the staff which was easy to achieve when numbers were so > small and will naturally lessen as the organisation grows, but a > lessening which can be mitigated to some degree. > > Bodnotbod > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
