The Wikipedia Usability Initiative has extended the application deadline for the Software Developer position till May 30th. We are recruiting two candidates for this position. Both local applicants to the San Francisco Bay Area and remote applicants are encouraged to apply. Please help spread the word.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_(project)

Naoko Komura
Wikipedia Usability Initiative

Earlier today we posted a job description for a Communications intern at the Wikimedia Foundation.  This is a great opportunity for someone studying in a communications related field (marketing, communications, public relations, journalism – or others) to get extraordinary hands-on experience.  We have an enormous amount of work on our plate.  Handling the communications needs of a global organization with hundreds of millions of users around the world is no simple task.

If you’re interested and up for the hard work, send along your resume and some recent samples of your writing work.  The internship could last anywhere from 3 to 6 months, with some flexibility. We can also support school credit if it fits within your program.  For now we’re primarily looking for someone to work with us in our San Francisco offices, but as this is a rotating opportunity we may look at other options in the future.

Join the team that supports Wikipedia and its huge sister projects.  Help us help our volunteers make the internet a better place!

Jay Walsh, Communications<

So you want to run a top-10 web site? Now’s your chance…

We’re now hiring for a full-time system administrator to help monitor, maintain, and document the 400+ Linux/Unix servers that operate Wikipedia and its sister projects. This position will be based at our San Francisco headquarters, but will work closely with our remote staff and volunteers.

Currently, system administration tasks are spread over our other tech staff and volunteers, who have to split their time with software development, data center management, and network planning. A full-time system administrator will let us be more responsive to site issues when they happen, and more importantly be more proactive about planning for and averting problems before they affect the folks back home.

We’ve got operating systems to upgrade, configurations to document, software installations to automate, and a lot of service data that needs to be monitored and digested… if you think you’ve got the chops for it, send us your CV by the end of January!

Brion Vibber
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation

It’s tech hiring season again at Wikimedia!

• Software Developer/IT Support
• Software Developer
• System Administrator

We’re looking for at least some people to be here at our San Francisco office, but remote development and system administration is also available (especially making sure we’ve got stronger timezone coverage for our sysadmins).

So all you out there who’ve been toiling in secret on your wikis and websites o’ doom, but always secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to work for Wikipedia — send yourself in to jobs at wikimedia.org.

Brion VIBBER

Chief Technical Officer<

We are very pleased to be posting three new job opportunities on the WMF wiki. All three are fundraising and development related and be found here or below.

• Job openings/Head of Major Gifts (Major Gifts Officer) – OPEN until May 15, 2008
• Job openings/Head of Community Giving – OPEN until May 15, 2008
• Job openings/Development Specialist – OPEN until May 15, 2008

Please spread the word, encourage application, or apply yourself. Support our mission and help spread free knowledge!

Jay Walsh, Head of Communications