Community Liaison (Product Development), Wikimedia Foundation
About me
In my real wiki-life, I am User:WhatamIdoing. I've been a regular editor at the English Wikipedia since 2007, and I've been in the top 500 most prolific editors of all time for a couple of years. My interests run from medicine to pastry to education, with odd points in between. I also spend a lot of time working as a metapedian, which in my case means supporting WikiProjects through the English Wikipedia's WikiProject Council and helping write policies and guidelines.
Official mistakes will be made in this temporary staff account. Unofficial mistakes are still made in my personal account. To find me in my volunteer capacity, look for me at WikiProject Medicine on the English Wikipedia or say hello at User talk:WhatamIdoing.
My work
For the next couple of months, I'm a part-time independent contractor for the WMF to help them—and all of us!—with some of the upcoming major changes to the software at the Wikipedias. The major part of my job description is to support these changes by "ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs". The community includes the power users as well as the occasional editors, who have very different needs and very different ways of expressing their needs. We all want something that ultimately works for the core community as well as for the occasional editors and for those who would become more productive contributors with a less complicated editing system.
I have been assigned to the Japanese, Polish, and Swedish Wikipedias, and I want to make sure that these communities have the important help and information pages translated and that the software developers hear about their concerns as feedback and on Bugzilla. I need help from people who speak these three languages!
Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, and edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation. Although I am a member of the Legal and Community Advocacy team, I am not a lawyer. The legal team can only represent the Wikimedia Foundation on legal matters, so we are unable to give legal advice to others, including community members, editors, or contributors. Communications with members of the legal team are not consultations and do not create any confidential relationship.
Contact
You can leave a message for me on my talk page at these wikis:
wikimedia.org.
