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Individuals

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Name Username Start End IRC name Notes
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) 2011-01 2011-04 Contract followed 15 months on staff as WMF's first Public Outreach Officer, where primary duty was designing Public Policy Initiative.[40][41] The contract, supervised by Sara Crouse, entailed writing and reporting on grants from foundations and major donors. Although Forsyth's firm Wiki Strategies firm was founded just prior to his work for WMF, it was not formally hired as the contractor for that scope of work. The WMF did hire Wiki Strategies in 2012 for a staff training project, which the WMF later abandoned. User account is User:Peteforsyth.
Peter Adams Tech fundraising, including Open Web Analytics[42][43]
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[44]
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[45]
Richard Cole richcole1 Data center technician
Roan Kattouw Catrope 2009-05-26 2012-02-23 RoanKattouw General code work; commits as catrope; is awesome[46], converted to full time, [47]
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[48] ? Education Programs Manager[49]; 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[50] ? 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[51]
Sam Reed Reedy 2010-09-07 Reedy Various MediaWiki-related projects, mostly API-related[52]; 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".[53]
Subramanya Sastry Ssastry 2012-05-14 subbu Visual Editor Parsoid work.[54]
Sumana Harihareswara Sumanah 2011-02 2012-04-11 sumanah Volunteer Development Coordinator, administering mw:Google Summer of Code[55] Converted to full time [56]
Tilman Bayer Tbayer (WMF) 2011-07 2012-05 Supporting movement communications[57]. Converted to full time[58]
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[59] zakg MediaWiki/Wikimedia developer documentation; weekly reports and daily logs at mw:User:Zakgreant/Report and mw:User:Zakgreant/Log

Organizations

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Calcey

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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.[60]

m/Oppenheim

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HR recruitment, mostly for management.

Noble Studios

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Hired to design a carrier portal for the Wikipedia Zero initiative. First reported in May/June 2014.

Others

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57006606
  2. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2014#March Staff Changes
  3. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=216035931
  4. ↑ Special:Diff/11707735
  5. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/70402312
  6. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429021
  7. ↑ a b c d Wikimedia Foundation Report, October 2013#Staff Changes.
  8. ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-October/055799.html
  9. ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-July/048399.html
  10. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/52229274
  11. ↑ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/03/07/brion-vibber-rejoins-wikimedia-foundation/
  12. ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061941.html
  13. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65144937
  14. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57003696
  15. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Report, March 2012#Staff Changes, Wikimedia Foundation Report, July 2012#Staff Changes
  16. ↑ wmf:special:diff/92207
  17. ↑ wmf:special:diff/101845
  18. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57826186
  19. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65145087
  20. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429029
  21. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/54573178
  22. ↑ a b End date listed as last edit to wiki. / http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-November/062131.html
  23. ↑ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/
  24. ↑ 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
  25. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/48433589
  26. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47428983
  27. ↑ a b c d e f Wikimedia Foundation Report, November 2013#Staff Changes.
  28. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/54537020
  29. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/64668014
  30. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/59884299
  31. ↑ IRC office hours/Office hours 2013-06-12, etherpad:l10n-team-2013-05
  32. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65144952
  33. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47429000
  34. ↑ Official hiring announcement blogpost
  35. ↑ Announcement on Wikimedia blog
  36. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/74561371
  37. ↑ Announcement on Foundation-L
  38. ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michelle-paulson/19/56/10a
  39. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785238
  40. ↑ https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27552
  41. ↑ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/10/school-of-open-offers-free-wikipedia-course/
  42. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/47690035
  43. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785854
  44. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785563
  45. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/65785472
  46. ↑ because MZMcBride said so in diff 2422203, Meta-Wiki , 03:07, 2 March 2011
  47. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/91064390
  48. ↑ http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff&diff=58612
  49. ↑ outreachwiki:User:Rdunican
  50. ↑ Previously full-time, switched to contractor after moving to OpenStack.
  51. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/57003754
  52. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/49375335
  53. ↑ mailarchive:wikimedia-l/2016-June/084354.html
  54. ↑ [Wikitech-l] Announcement: Subramanya Sastry joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Software Engineer
  55. ↑ Official hiring announcement blogpost
  56. ↑ http://identi.ca/notice/92621876
  57. ↑ [1]
  58. ↑ https://identi.ca/notice/93671274
  59. ↑ http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors&action=historysubmit&diff=2411986&oldid=2386672
  60. ↑ Hearsay, mostly
  61. ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Communications_WMF_Quarterly_Review,_Q2_2014-15.pdf&page=4
  62. ↑ https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Communications_WMF_Quarterly_Review,_Q2_2014-15.pdf&page=7
  63. ↑ «on the average 324 payments per month via oDesk as of December 2013»
  64. ↑ Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_July-September_2015#Talent & Culture
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