My subscription to this list last night was most fortuitous. Hi everyone! Happy to be here, and looking forward to working with you all.
Dan On 24 September 2013 19:30, Howie Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone, > > I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to > an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago). > > First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst > (contractor, full time). As many of you know, Oliver has been working with > us for the past ~2 years as a Community Liaison. As Community Liaison, he > has helped provide the critical link between the English Wikipedia editing > community and WMF product teams on Page Curation, Echo, AFT, and > VisualEditor. Effective immediately, Oliver will be transitioning to the > newly created role of Product Analyst. In this role, Oliver will support > the Flow team in mapping out the myriad of complex workflows, templates, > bots, and other craziness that happens on talk pages, and also providing > analytical support to help the Flow team prioritize features. [*] > > We are also welcoming Dan Garry (User: Deskana) as Associate Product > Manager (contractor, full time), working with Rob Lanphier's Platform team. > Dan has been an editor of the English Wikipedia since 2005, a sysop since > 2006, bureaucrat since 2007, CheckUser since 2007. . .you get the picture. > He will be working with members of the Platform team on a variety of > projects, which could include Admin tools, OAuth/OpenID, community code > repository. He has a BS in Computer Science and is awaiting his thesis > approval for an MS in Integrative Systems Biology. > > Both Oliver and Dan are planning on relocating to SF. > > Also, please welcome Nick Wilson (User: Quiddity) as Community Liaison > (contractor, part time). Nick has been an editor on the English Wikipedia > since 2005 (over 37k edits) and has participated in community-lead > redesigns of hubs on the English Wikipedia, including the Main Page, > Community Portal, Help: Contents, and Portal: Contents. He will be working > as the CL for the Flow team, helping to ensure open lines of communication > between our editing community and the Flow team, and surfacing issues that > are important to our editors. Nick will be working remotely from Victoria, > BC, Canada. > > Please join me in congratulating Oliver on his new role, and in welcoming > Dan and Nick! > > Howie > > [*] The Product Analyst role is new, and it may be a while before we have > it nailed down. To complicate things further, Oliver has been doing > Product Analyst-type activities (e.g. template inventory for Page Curation) > even as a CL :) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
