Thanks for the comments and useful notes about the internship. I can assure you that we all share coffee making duties in the office, and hopefully have created an encouraging atmosphere where Isabelle can get involved in new and exciting projects. She has also attended the London Wikimeet to get to know some of our volunteers.
We will be doing end of the Internship feedback session, together with a blog post so you can all find out how the internship went. We are also having another intern starting on 10 September which we are all looking forward to. Regards, Daria On 24 August 2012 19:50, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Daria Cybulska > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> Wikimedia UK will have an intern in the office working with us for 6 weeks >> over the Summer (as per http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_intern).... > > I'm pleased to see a list of tasks at the link. > > I've not been an intern but I did two bouts of work experience at > school age and my times at both were appallingly rotten experiences. > So please try to avoid: > > 1. Giving them too many trips to the coffee making facilities (making > refreshments is an OK thing to get an intern to do, but please make > them one every now and again and please don't make them feel that > refreshments is their key role). > > 2. Please find interesting things for them to do. If the office is > busy there may be a temptation to think "well, in the time it takes me > to train the intern to do this, I could have done it myself." But the > intern is there to develop skills. So please teach them some cool > stuff, > > It would also be great if people would make an effort to drop by the > office and chat to the intern on a friendly basis. > > Is there a plan for the intern to fill in feedback about her time > there? It would be good for WMUK to know what she thinks and to feed > that back for when the next intern is present. > > Don't know whether Isabelle is going to see this (is she on the > mailing list now?) but if so: hello! I hope you have a fulfilling > time. > > Bod Notbod > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Daria Cybulska - Events Organiser, Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0994 +44 7803 505 170 -- Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
