On 05/14/2014 05:38 PM, Terry Chay wrote: > Hello everyone, > > It's a testament to either how awesome our people are… or just how notorious > I am for not announcing things promptly that I noticed this sitting in my > Google Docs the other day with the note from the VisualEditor Team: "terry, > we and Alex think this is now good for you to post, if you're OK with it." > > I'm including the letter as is. Please note the date at the end. > > … > > Hello all, > > It is with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Alex Monk[0] has joined > the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor in Features Engineering. > > Alex has been a great, wide-ranging and hugely supporting volunteer developer > for 2 years on MediaWiki core and several extensions, including LiquidThreads > and Echo, helping us get rid of outdated extensions once and for all, and > fixing general site issues. > > Alex will be working with the VisualEditor[3] team to help better integrate > the editor into MediaWiki, and create and improve the editing tools, as well > as fixes and support for MediaWiki core and other extensions as needed. > > Alex is currently a student in England, and will be working with us part-time > whilst he continues his studies. In his spare time, Alex was recently part of > a team at his college competing in this year’s Student Robotics[4] > competition, and also enjoys playing online computer games. > > We’re delighted that he’s agreed to join us, with his first official day > Monday, 10 March. > > Please join me in an only-slightly-belated welcome of Alex to the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > Take care, > Terry > > [0]: [[mw:User:Krenair]] > [1]: [[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads]] > [2]: [[mw:Extension:Echo]] > [3]: [[mw:VisualEditor]] > [4]: [[w:en:Student Robotics]] > > … > > Even if the staff tries to cover up for me, they now know that I'll somehow > conspire to forget to do so until two months later. :-D > > Please join us in a very-belated welcome of Alex to the Wikimedia Foundation! > > Take care, > > terry > > > terry chay 최태리 > Director of Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.” > > p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 > m: +1 (408) 480-8902 > e: tc...@wikimedia.org > i: http://terrychay.com/ > w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay
I have for years appreciated Alex Monk and been grateful to have him as part of our community. He's sensible, calm, thorough, and straightforward without being mean, and a good person to bounce ideas around with. This announcement caused me to look up the chronology of his MediaWiki contributions: Early 2012: first email in my email archives & #mediawiki chatlogs mentioning, to, or from Alex (Krenair) October 2012: Alex becomes an Echo maintainer December 2012: first discussion of Alex becoming a core maintainer Feb 2013: Alex becomes a maintainer of MediaWiki core January 2014: Alex comes to Architecture Summit and a bunch of us get to meet him for the first time :) If there are any new MediaWiki hackers out there who think Krenair is one of the "old hands" because he's an expert: well, he was once a newbie like you, and you can become an expert like him. And he's not a bad role model to follow. :) I'm glad Engineering Community Team could do our bit to help nurture him: now, over to you, Terry. :) -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
