On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung <hf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Everyone, > > It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San > Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual > Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday > and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff > member. > > James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on > the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community > feedback into the development process. > > As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started > contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding > member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement’s > volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of > what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the > “gopher-in-chief” at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped > found Wikimedia UK in 2005. >
You forgot one biggie: he has run the London Wikipedia meetup which first started in June 2004 has now met 57 times. Hong Kong has met more often, but London is, I believe, the "Original and Best" (in all 57 varieties).* * The Heinz joke blatantly stolen from Jon Davies at Wikimedia UK. Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the planet. Good hire. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l