Dario -- what news! And how close that seems to your recent pushing of us all. How lucky the projects have been to have you building a research constellation, for these many years.
Leila, congrats + warm wishes in your new role. With wikilove and taxonometrics, SJ On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:56 PM Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've got some personal news to share. > > After 8 years with Wikimedia, I have decided to leave the Foundation to > take up a new role focused on open science. This has been a difficult > decision but an opportunity arose and I am excited to be moving on to an > area that’s been so close to my heart for years. > > Serving the movement as part of the Research team at WMF has been, and > will definitely be, the most important gig in my life. I leave a team of > ridiculously talented and fun people that I can’t possibly imagine not > spending all of my days with, as well many collaborators and friends in the > community who have I worked alongside. I am proud and thankful to have been > part of this journey with you all. With my departure, Leila Zia is taking > the lead of Research at WMF, and you all couldn't be in better hands. > > In March, I’ll be joining CZI Science—a philanthropy based in the Bay > Area—to help build their portfolio of open science programs and technology. > I'll continue to be an ally on the same fights in my new role. > > Other than that, I look forward to returning to full volunteer mode. I > started editing English Wikipedia in 2004, working on bloody chapters in > the history of London <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield,_London>; > hypothetical > astronomy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine>; unsung heroes > among women in science <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Potter>; and > of course natural > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_South_Napa_earthquake>, technical > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Dyn_cyberattack> and political > disasters > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections>. > I’ve also developed an embarrassing addiction to Wikidata, and you’ll > continue seeing me around hacking those instances of Q16521 > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16521> for a little while. > > I hope our paths cross once again in the future. > > Best, > > Dario > > > -- > > *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > <http://twitter.com/readermeter> > > -- > Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite > Twitter: https://twitter.com/wikicite > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "wikicite-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wikicite-discuss+unsubscr...@wikimedia.org. > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
