We have now entered the close of the fiscal year at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is the time when we write up our peer and manager reviews and write our “self-assessment” documents, used in determining our roles over the next year.
Part of that is writing up a list of what we did during the fiscal year of 2011-2012. I’m actually quite proud of what I’ve done over the past 365 days, and I’m going to share it with you.
Completed 2011-2012 Goals:
- Become more visible to the community and serve as a face for features development
(That was, strangely enough, the only goal I was given, and I completed it fairly early on).
Projects, Lead:
- WMF Design Guideline Project (ongoing)
- Athena
- New Page Triage
- Moodbar
- Echo (Notifications)
- Feedback Dashboard
- Article Creation Landing System
- Mark as Helpful
- Reference Tooltips
- Timestamp position modification
Projects, Consulting:
Leadership:
- Directly managed and served as mentor for a direct report
- Served as a general leader in activities that cross all aspects of the work the Foundation does.
- Engaged and nurtured new employees as much as possible
Fundraising:
- Served on a banner ad, making around $8.2 million dollars for the Foundation
- Provided exceptional advocacy for the Fundraiser in social media outlets
- Performed one of the more successful “Ask Me Anything” on reddit
- A couple interviews with magazines
SOPA:
- Design lead for the SOPA blackout initiative
- Did a rather successful visual design that was seen by millions, broadcast on multiple newscasts, and used as the lead image in hundreds of news articles.
Advocacy:
- Wikimania Haifa
- Hackathon Mumbai
- Hackathon SF
- Hackathon Berlin
- Wikimania DC (future)
- Hosted two meetings of the Product Design guild
Speaking Engagements:
- Wikimania Haifa
- Stanford class on online communities
- Opensource Bridge (future)
- Wikimania DC (future)
All in all, I think a pretty solid year.
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