Hi Dan! In WikiVote! we're calling these guys 'facilitators' and growing them from school teachers. I would say that this question belongs to mediawiki-enterprise [1] mailing lists, try to ask that there.
Also I must warn you that a good facilitator is not enough for the wiki growth. For that you need proper advertisement of your wiki and SEO: the competence that facilitator usually don't have. For hiring I would try online-facilitation group [2] and of course the all-mighty LinkedIn. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise [2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation/ ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Dan Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > This page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community_manager > says: > *- The online community manager role is a growing and developing > profession. People in this position work to build, grow and manage > communities around a brand or cause.* > > That's the kind of person I want to hire. They would do what they can to > increase the number of editors on my wiki and create a community on the > site - something I've not managed to do myself. They would look into making > things easy for new editors, from converting readers into editors and > creating a positive social atmosphere on the wiki. It would be helpful for > them to also be subject matter experts although its not required. > > Has anyone here done something like? If so, can you share your experiences? > And do you have any tips on finding a person who would be really good at > this role? > > thanks > Dan > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
