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This page lists Wikimedia Foundation contractors.
A few ground rules for listing a person here:
- "contractor" is used loosely here and isn't meant to be derogatory;
- use reasonable clues to try to determine whether or not someone is being contracted by the Wikimedia Foundation and include references as necessary; a wikimedia.org e-mail address, mailing list announcements and blog posts are all good clues; in addition, there is an official microblogging feed, wikimediaatwork, on Identi.ca and on Twitter to communicate about these positions;
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Contents
Individuals[edit]
Name | Username | Start | End | IRC name | Notes |
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Adrianne Wadewitz | Awadewit | ? | Educational curriculum consultant, focusing on university curriculum[1] | ||
Aislinn Dewey | Ashstar01 | 2011-09 | ? | User Experience designer working on visual design of banner templates and donor landing pages for 2011 Annual Fundraiser]]) | |
Alex Monk | Alex Monk (WMF) | 2014-03-10 | 2016-12-31 | Krenair | [2] VisualEditor[3], also occasionally helps with labs/ops-related things |
Alex | Skud (WMF) | 2015-02-01 | 2015-04-30 | Grants.[4] | |
Alex Zariv | Azariv | 2011-08-01 | ? | AlexZ_ | Fundraiser Production Coordinator; previously worked as Office IT support[5] and on the 2010 Wikimedia fundraiser[6] |
Amir E. Aharoni | Amire80 | 2011-10-01 | aharoni | MediaWiki localization developer, language support, in particular - right-to-left text; commits as amire80 | |
Andre Engels | Andre Engels | 2012-01-02 | ? | Andre_Engels | Visitor log analysis, in particular in the mobile area |
Andrew Bogott | Andrew Bogott | 2011-11-01 | andrewbogott | Developer for operations; working on OpenStack features at the moment. | |
Andrew Green | 2013-10[7] | Engineering | |||
Andrew Garrett | Werdna | werdna | Previously worked on AbuseFilter; now working on LiquidThreads; commits as werdna | ||
Andrew Shields | AndrewShields | 2011-05-27 | ? | andrewS | Tampa data center technician |
Angela Robeson | 2011-10-25 | ? | Recruiter | ||
Antoine Musso | Hashar | 2011-10-17 | hashar | Developer (mw:Continuous integration);[8] commits as hashar | |
Aryeh Gregor | Simetrical | 2010-06-30 | 2010-09-15 | AryehGregor | Category collation sorting;[9] commits as simetrical |
Ashok Misra | AshokMisra | 2011-09 | ? | AshokM | Consultant, providing expert advise on payments interface for 2011 Annual Fundraiser. Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashokseattlemisra]]) |
Brion Vibber | Brion VIBBER | 2011-03-30 | brion | Code review[10]; previously Wikimedia staff and now again[11]; commits as brion | |
Chad Horohoe | ^demon | 2010-06-07 | ^demon | Working on FlaggedRevs in support of its deployment on the English Wikipedia; other misc. projects; commits as demon | |
Charles A. Barr | cbarr | 2011-07 | ? | PhancyPhysicist | Fundraiser Production Coordinator |
Christine Moellenberndt | Christine (WMF) | 2010-10-18 | 2011-11-31 | ChristineM | Reader relations[12] |
Dan Garry | Deskana (WMF) | 2013-09-03 | 2013-12-31 | Deskana | Product management consultant working on Platform Engineering. Converted to full-time employee in January 2014. |
Dan Rosenthal | Drosenthal | 2011-02[13] | SWATJester | Community Associate; chapter and local language outreach[14] | |
Daniel DeJarnatt | 2012-03[15] | 2013-06-07 or earlier[16] | WMF HR, for HRIS; converted to staff.[17] | ||
Dario Taraborelli | DarTar | 2010-12-01 | DarTar | Consultant focusing on Strategic product research[18] | |
Deniz Gültekin | Dgultekin | 2010-08-23 | 2011-02-15[19] | Deniz | 2010 Wikimedia fundraiser[20] |
Diederik van Liere | ? | ? | Research consultant, focusing on user trends and change patrolling tools[21] | ||
Dory Carr-Harris | 2010-07-01 | 2010-10-02[22] | 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content | ||
Fabrice Florin | Fabrice Florin | 2011-10-01 | fabriceflorin | Product consultant developing new features of the Article Feedback Tool[23] | |
Gerard Meijssen | GerardM | 2011-08 | ? | GerardM | Part of the internationalization and localization team[24] |
Greg DeKoenigsberg | Gregdek | 2011-10 | gregdek | mw:Weekend of Code-related work | |
Heather Walls | heatherwalls | 2011-10 | Designer | ||
Hisham Mundol | 2011-02 | m:FAQ Consultancy for National Programs, India | |||
Isa Munne | 2011-04 | ? | Interim Head of Office Administration | ||
Iván Martínez | ProtoplasmaKid | 2014? | ? | Wikimania 2015 | |
Jacquelynne Ocaña | 2010 | Communications intern[25] | |||
James Alexander | Jalexander | 2010-08-01 | Jamesofur | 2010 Wikimedia fundraiser[26] | |
Jami Mathewson | JMathewson (WMF) | 2011-11 | 2013-11[27] | USA education program, moved to the Wiki Education Foundation "spin-off". | |
Jan Gerber | JanGerber | j^ | TimedMediaHandler, commit name J. Current contract is w/ Google as part of their efforts to promote WebM adoption. | ||
Jan Paul Posma | JanPaul123 | 2011-04 | janpaul123 | Feature development; commits as janpaul123 | |
Jeff Hall | 2013-11[27] | Engineering, Quality Assurance | |||
Jessica Robell | 2013-11[27] | Global Fundraising Coordinator | |||
Joey Hess | 2013-11[27] | Engineering | |||
Jon Davis | Jdavis (WMF) | 2010-06-22 | 2011-02 | ShakataGaNai | IT (networking) guy at the San Francisco Wikimedia office[28][29] |
Jon Harald Søby | Jon Harald Søby | 2011-07 and others | 2014-03 | Jhs | Fundraiser Production Coordinator, translation coordination etc. |
Jon Huggett | 2010-07 | ? | Consultant and project manager on the Movement Roles II project (Board minutes) | ||
Jon Robson | 2012-02-07 | jdlrobson | Working in the mobile team | ||
Joseph Seddon | 2011-06 | 2012-02 | Seddon | Production Coordinator | |
Joshua VanDavier | Community Development Associate; tracking, trending, and processing donations[30] | ||||
Juli Matthews | JMatthews (WMF) | 2013-07-01 | Wikimedia Shop daily management and design | ||
Kartik Mistry | Kartik Mistry | 2013-06-05 | kart_ | Language Engineering team[31] | |
Keegan Peterzell | Kpeterzell, Keegan (WMF) | 2010-08-23, 2013-06-23 |
2011-01-31[32], currently ongoing |
Keegan | 2010 Wikimedia fundraiser[33], 2013 Product deployment (VisualEditor, Notifications, Beta Features) |
Kunal Mehta | 2013-10[7] | Features Engineering | |||
Liam Wyatt | 2011-01 | 2011-12 | GLAM cultural fellow[34] | ||
Lori Byrd Phillips | LoriLee | 2012-01 | 2012-12 | LoriLee | US Cultural Partnerships (GLAM) Coordinator [35] |
Maggie Dennis | Mdennis (WMF) | 2011-05 | 2012-02-01 | Moonriddengirl | Community Liason[36] (converted to permanent)[37] |
Mark Hershberger | MarkAHershberger | ? | hexmode | w:en:User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports; commits as mah. Later MediaWiki release management. | |
Mark Holmquist | MarkTraceur | 2012-02-29 | marktraceur | Working on UploadWizard and the Orgcharts tool. | |
Max Semenik | MaxSem | 2011-12-19 | 2012-06-18 | MaxSem | Mobile team API developer |
Michael Beattie | MBeattie | 2013-03-01 | mbeat | Donor Services Contractor | |
Michelle Paulson | Associate Counsel[38][39] | ||||
Michelle Grover | 2013-11[27] | Engineering | |||
Mike Hoover | 2013-11[27] | Engineering, for Wikimedia Labs migration to EQIAD | |||
Molly Connelly | Mconnelly | Fundraising help; temp | |||
Moriel Schottlender | 2013-10[7] | Engineering | |||
Moushira Elamrawy | Melamrawy (WMF) | 2010-02-01 | 2012-01-31 | Moushira | Chapters Relations Manager |
Niklas Laxström | Nikerabbit | 2011-08 | Nikerabbit | Part of the internationalization and localization team[24] | |
Oliver Keyes | Ironholds | 2011-10 | Ironholds | Community Liason, Product Development | |
Patrick Reilly | Preilly | 2011-04 | ? | preilly | mw:Mobile site rewrite |
Paul Norman | 2017-01? | 2017-02 discovery, m:Special:Diff/2363941 | |||
Pete Forsyth | Pete Forsyth (WMF) | ? | ? | Public Policy Initiative, probably as Wiki Strategies firm.[40] He served as the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer from 2009 to 2011 | |
Peter Adams | Tech fundraising, including Open Web Analytics[41][42] | ||||
Peter Coombe | the wub | 2011-06 | 2012-02 | thewub | Fundraiser Production Coordinator |
Peter Youngmeister | Pyoungmeister | 2011-02 | notpeter | Consultant, working as an Operations Engineer for the Tech Department[43] | |
Petr Pchelko | 2015-06? | Has a wikimedia.org email address and has submitted patches to a WMF app: gerrit:221597. | |||
Prateek Saxena | Prtksxna | 2014-02? | Has a wikimedia.org email address and has submitted some patches to make a gadget into a MediaWiki extension. | ||
Rayne MacGeorge | 2011-02 | ? | Consultant, working on IT projects including Google Apps migration[44] | ||
Richard Cole | richcole1 | Data center technician | |||
Roan Kattouw | Catrope | 2009-05-26 | 2012-02-23 | RoanKattouw | General code work; commits as catrope; is awesome[45], converted to full time, [46] |
Rob Schnautz | en:User:Rob Schnautz (WMF) | 2012-3-1 | 2012-7-31 | BobTheWikipedian | Online Communications for Wikipedia Education Program |
Robert Harris | Robertmharris | 2010-07-01 | 2010-10-02[22] | 2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content | |
Rod Dunican | Rdunican | 2011-02-07[47] | ? | Education Programs Manager[48]; formerly and later, employee. | |
Rummana Yasmeen | 2013-10[7] | 2014-04 | Software Test Engineer (Visual Editor) | ||
Russ Nelson | RussNelson | nelson | Media storage something or other | ||
Ryan Faulkner | 2010-11-01 | rfaulk | Data analyst, fundraising tech | ||
Ryan Lane | 2013-11[49] | ? | Operations | ||
Salmaan Haroon | Theo (WMF) | 2010-10-15 | 2011-01-31 | Theo10011 | Consultant, focusing on outreach to chapters, local language communities, and social media for the fundraiser[50] |
Sam Reed | Reedy | 2010-09-07 | Reedy | Various MediaWiki-related projects, mostly API-related[51]; commits as reedy | |
Santhosh Thottingal | Santhosh.thottingal | 2011-08 | Part of the internationalization and localization team[24] | ||
Sara Yap | syap | 2011-08 | 2011-12 | sky | Project Catalyst Associate, Global Development |
Siebrand Mazeland | Siebrand | 2009-10-01 | siebrand | translatewiki.net; commits as siebrand. Also Product Manager Localisation, 2011–2013. | |
Stefan Petrea | 2014-03 | average | Analytics | ||
Steven Bernardin | Engineering | ||||
Sue Gardner | Sue Gardner | 2014-06-01 | 2016-05-31 | 300,000 USD/year contractor for unspecified services, or "special advisor".[52] | |
Subramanya Sastry | Ssastry | 2012-05-14 | subbu | Visual Editor Parsoid work.[53] | |
Sumana Harihareswara | Sumanah | 2011-02 | 2012-04-11 | sumanah | Volunteer Development Coordinator, administering mw:Google Summer of Code[54] Converted to full time [55] |
Tilman Bayer | Tbayer (WMF) | 2011-07 | 2012-05 | Supporting movement communications[56]. Converted to full time[57] | |
Timo Tijhof | Krinkle | 2011-04-01 | Krinkle | Feature development; commits as krinkle | |
Tomasz Kozlowski | TKozlowski (WMF) | 2016-07 | odder | Wikimedia blog writer as needed. | |
Zak Greant | Zakgreant | 2010-05-01 | 2011-02-25[58] | zakg | MediaWiki/Wikimedia developer documentation; weekly reports and daily logs at mw:User:Zakgreant/Report and mw:User:Zakgreant/Log |
Organizations[edit]
Calcey[edit]
Calcey was hired during the Wikipedia Usability Initiative by Naoko to do quality assessment work. Subsequently Calcey was contracted to do other Wikimedia-related work.[59]
m/Oppenheim[edit]
HR recruitment, mostly for management.
Noble Studios[edit]
Hired to design a carrier portal for the Wikipedia Zero initiative. First reported in May/June 2014.
Others[edit]
- Minassian Media (Jove Oliver, Helen Platt[60]) for "Ongoing support for media events"[61] and other stuff
- Celinda Lake, LRP ("one of the Democratic Party's leading political strategists") for a fundraising survey (2015)
- Contractors payment
- Upwork (ex oDesk), since forever; as of 2017 mostly for "smaller" contracts?[62][63]
- A different company for certain contractors since ~2015, including services from https://www.capital-ges.com/
See also[edit]
- India Program/Team
- Wiki Education Foundation
- Org chart, includes (some) contractors
References[edit]
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57006606
- ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2014#March Staff Changes
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=216035931
- ↑ Special:Diff/11707735
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/70402312
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429021
- ↑ a b c d Wikimedia Foundation Report, October 2013#Staff Changes.
- ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-October/055799.html
- ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-July/048399.html
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/52229274
- ↑ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/07/brion-vibber-rejoins-wikimedia-foundation/
- ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061941.html
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65144937
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57003696
- ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2012#Staff Changes, Wikimedia Foundation Report, July 2012#Staff Changes
- ↑ wmf:special:diff/92207
- ↑ wmf:special:diff/101845
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57826186
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65145087
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429029
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/54573178
- ↑ a b End date listed as last edit to wiki. / http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062131.html
- ↑ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/
- ↑ a b c http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-report-august-2011/ and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-September/055078.html
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/48433589
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47428983
- ↑ a b c d e f Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2013#Staff Changes.
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/54537020
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/64668014
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/59884299
- ↑ IRC office hours/Office hours 2013-06-12, etherpad:l10n-team-2013-05
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65144952
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429000
- ↑ Official hiring announcement blogpost
- ↑ Announcement on Wikimedia blog
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/74561371
- ↑ Announcement on Foundation-L
- ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michelle-paulson/19/56/10a
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785238
- ↑ https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27552
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47690035
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785854
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785563
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785472
- ↑ because MZMcBride said so in diff 2422203, Meta-Wiki , 03:07, 2 March 2011
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/91064390
- ↑ http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff&diff=58612
- ↑ outreachwiki:User:Rdunican
- ↑ Previously full-time, switched to contractor after moving to OpenStack.
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57003754
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/49375335
- ↑ mailarchive:wikimedia-l/2016-June/084354.html
- ↑ [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Subramanya Sastry joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Software Engineer
- ↑ Official hiring announcement blogpost
- ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/92621876
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://identi.ca/notice/93671274
- ↑ http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors&action=historysubmit&diff=2411986&oldid=2386672
- ↑ Hearsay, mostly
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Communications_WMF_Quarterly_Review,_Q2_2014-15.pdf&page=4
- ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Communications_WMF_Quarterly_Review,_Q2_2014-15.pdf&page=7
- ↑ «on the average 324 payments per month via oDesk as of December 2013»
- ↑ Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_July-September_2015#Talent & Culture