So excited to have you on the team, S! Looking forward to skiing related ECT team offsites too. ;) Rachel
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > It is an honor to announce that S Page[1] has moved from the Collaboration > (Flow) team to join the WMF Engineering Community team as a Technical > Writer[2]. We were really lucky to find such a great combination of English > communication skills, awareness of MediaWiki documentation pain points, > more-than-basic MediaWiki development experience, and Wikimedia community > mileage. Besides, S is self-driven, based in San Francisco, and accompanies > almost any reaction with a smile, assets of great value in his new > position. > > Or in his own words: "S Page, the old guy in the S.F. office in Jhane > Barnes shirts[3], feels compelled to write things down, now he'll be doing > it officially as he transfers from the Collaboration (Flow) team to the > Tech Writer position in the Engineering Community Team. He wrote > documentation for Sun's window systems and the innovative PenPoint > operating system and has a serious crush on software developers. When not > lowercasing the Invasion of Officious Pride Capitals, he lives to ski and > snowboard." > > S will be responsible for leading the creation and maintenance of > documentation for third-party application developers and free software > contributors to Wikimedia projects. The three axes that define his initial > technical writing space are > > 1. Define the plan for a technical documentation hub[4] > > 2. Fix the documentation of the Architecture RfC process[5] > > 3. Work on T2001 (was Bug 1) blocking tasks[6] > > While we expect S to write lots of docs, we actually hope that he shines in > his role coordinating technical documentation activities involving > developers and tech-curious editors with different affiliations and levels > of expertise. You’re welcome to make proposals and identify specific tasks > at mw:Talk:Documentation[7], or simply add the #Documentation tag to any > task in Phabricator that affects the documentation.[8] > > As if all this would not be enough, S Page's first official assignment is > actually one that he carries from his previous position that fits perfectly > in the Engineering Community goals: deliver a Trello to Phabricator > migration script.[9] > > Welcome S to your new role and to the Engineering Community team! > > > == References == > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SPage_(WMF) > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team > [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=Jhane+Barnes+shirt&tbm=isch > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/dev.wikimedia.org > [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1107 and more > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2001 > [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation > [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/documentation/ > [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T821 > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > 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
