Welcome, Fabrice and Oliver! You can read an interview with Oliver in the newest Wikipedia Signpost -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-10-24/Interview -- and Oliver and Fabrice will be participating in an IRC office hours session (in #wikimedia-office) tomorrow, on Thursday 27 October, at 19:00 UTC.
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Howie Fung <hf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Everyone, > > I am pleased to announce that we have two contractors joining the Technology > team. Fabrice Florin will be joining us for the next six months as Product > Consultant, leading the development of the next version of the Article > Feedback Tool. Oliver Keyes (User: Ironholds on enwp) will be joining us as > a community liaison for the next three months. His role is to help ensure > that the community input is better incorporated into WMF’s product > development process. > > Fabrice has extensive background in the fields of education and journalism. > He is founder and executive director of NewsTrust, a nonprofit social news > site devoted to good journalism -- as well as Truthsquad, a network > dedicated to fact-checking the political claims made during election > campaigns. His previous ventures include: Handtap, a wireless content > service for mobile phones; shockwave.com, a web entertainment site at > Macromedia; Apple Computer's Multimedia Lab, a new media R&D group; and a > variety of other roles in media and technology. Fabrice earned four patents > for his interactive TV work at Apple and was recently elected an Ashoka > Fellow for his work as social entrepreneur [1]. Read more in his online > bio[2]. > > Oliver has been an editor since 2006 and is both an administrator and an > OTRS volunteer on the English Wikipedia. With strong experience in content > creation as well as administrative tasks, he has a broad base of knowledge > that will undoubtedly be helpful in coordinating community feedback, > organizing discussions, and making sure more voices are heard as part of the > product development process. > > As many of you know, the Tech department continues to look for ways to > gather input from our experienced editors when designing new features. > Oliver’s job will be to act as a conduit between WMF’s development team and > members of the community, helping editors make suggestions on feature > development and helping ensure that the Foundation incorporates this input. > > Fabrice may be reached at fflorin at wikimedia dot org, as well as his > userpages on the English Wikipedia and Mediawiki ([[User:Fabrice Florin]]). > Oliver will be on the projects as [[User:Ironholds]] and [[User:Okeyes > (WMF)]]; he can also be contacted directly via > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Okeyes_%28WMF%29. > > We’re very excited to be working with Fabrice and Oliver. Please join me in > welcoming them! > > Howie Fung > Senior Product Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > [1] http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/fabrice-florin > [2] http://newstrust.net/about/bio_florin > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
