On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:30 AM, 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. [*]
>

So a staff member that gets blocked on wiki (By Arbcom no less) is
basically getting getting a promotion, Where as volunteers that get blocked
and have access to some of our other services such as OTRS get their
permissions revoked.

WONDERFUL!
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