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Your work will both help developers to write multilingual software as well as support translation and creation of multilingual content. Love Wikipedia and its sibling projects? The Wikimedia Foundation is an inclusive employer, and we are looking for experienced engineering management to join our team, reporting to engineering leadership in Technology and Product Engineering.
In this role, you will work in a distributed remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach as we build fully open source software. You will manage highly skilled engineers, who ship quality software used by over a billion users, empowering them to do their best work. The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineers to join our team, reporting to product engineering management.
As a product software engineer, you will be responsible for software engineering for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach.
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineer to join our team, reporting to product engineering management. They will partner closely with leadership and staff in each department to lead Foundation wide cultural transformation initiatives. We are searching for a People Operations Manager to provide HR expertise in US compliance and benefits during a new parent leave and potentially beyond for a period of 6 to 12 months.
This role will manage the members of People Ops team in the US and provide expertise on US-based employment regulations, HR policies, US benefits regulations, and HR compliance across different states where our employees are based. In addition to a deep understanding of HR, this individual will incorporate our people-first philosophy and organizational values to serve foundation staff. The Wikimedia Foundation is a people-first organization, and the Talent and Culture department supports and empowers staff.
The Talent and Culture team partners with our leaders to build an organization capable of meeting our vision and operating within our values.
We are seeking a Senior Manager of People Operations who will help us grow and manage a diverse range of human resources programs, with a focus on managing the operational aspects of the employee life-cycle.
This is a full time position that is based remotely. The scope of this role is global and the job will require flexible working hours with specific time commitments to working office hours in the GMT or later time zones. The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a creative, collaborative, forward-thinking Chief Technology Officer CTO , strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, open data, independence, transparency and privacy.
You will support the technology leadership team across diverse areas of specialization, including software engineering, site reliability engineering, engineering productivity, technical engagement, research, security, machine learning, and data science and engineering.
Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host! The team works in partnership our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it!
Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world. As a SET, you are a software engineer with a strong test disposition. You should have coding skills that are on par with the software engineers SWEs that you will be working with. You will work closely with development teams to influence testability, taking into account the risks associated with the technology stack being used as well as the design and architecture of the software under test.
You will work to enable software engineers to deliver highly testable and stable code. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for planning, developing, training, documenting, deploying, and managing production machine learning models.
In this role, you will work with product teams, SREs, researchers, and the volunteer community on machine learning models making Wikipedia and similar projects better. While they may need to gather other forensic evidence to prove or disprove who was on the computer in question, the case against users will be pretty strong. Andrew Smith does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
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For information, see Adding users to a wiki page below. When you first create a wiki, the home page contains sample content about wikis. You can edit it or replace it with your own content. The easiest way to start adding content to your wiki is to edit the home page and add placeholder links to pages that you will create later.
Note: To edit wiki pages, people need permission to contribute to a wiki. On the wiki page that you want to edit, click Page , and then click Edit. Use the buttons on the ribbon to format text, and insert other content, such as pictures, tables, hyperlinks, and Web Parts.
To add wiki links to other pages, type the name of the page surrounded by double square brackets: [[Page Name]]. For example, to add a wiki link to a page named "Project Dates," type: [[Project Dates]]. When you start to type [[ , if the page exists, you'll be able to select it from the list.
If the page that you are linking to does not exist yet, you can create a link to the page anyway. After you save the edited page, the placeholder link you just created will have a dotted line beneath it. The actual page will be created later when someone else clicks the link to the page. When you are finished editing the page, click Page and then click Save. Tip: You can add more content later or change content that you have entered by clicking Edit. If you created a placeholder link, you can later click the link to create and edit the page.
From the wiki page that you want to add users, click Share. Enter the names, email addresses, or the alias 'Everyone'. If you have team email aliases such as 'Engineering', or any other group alias, you can also enter those here. As you enter the names, the server verifies the existence of the user account or alias.
To set permissions for the new users, click Show Options. Under Select a group or permission level or Select a permission level , select one of the groups or permission level such as Read, Edit, or Full control. To see the list of all users who are already sharing the site, click Shared with. When you check out a wiki page, you ensure that others cannot make changes to the page while you edit it.
While the page is checked out, you can edit and save it, close it, and reopen it. Other users cannot change the page or see your changes until you check it in. From the wiki page that you want to edit, click Page and then click Check Out.
Note: When you check a page out, you are only reserving it for yourself, it doesn't save, download, or edit. You need to choose what you want to do. Note: To check in the wiki page after editing, click the Check In button. You can add a picture from your computer, web address or from your SharePoint site directly to your wiki page. If you are not already editing the wiki page, click Edit. Click where you want to insert the picture, and then click the Insert tab on the ribbon.
Browse to the picture on your computer, select the library that you want to upload the picture to, and then click OK. You may need to fill in additional information about the picture you are uploading. In the Alternative Text box, type some text to describe the picture. Alternative text or Alt text appears as tooltip text when readers point to the picture. Alt text also helps people using screen readers understand the content of pictures. In the Select an Asset box, select a library or folder containing the picture you want to insert, Then click the picture, and then click Insert.
You may need to fill in additional information about the picture you are inserting. You can use the commands on the Image tab to add Alt Text for your image, change its appearance, and position it on the page. Wiki pages support the placement of links to other web or SharePoint sites outside the wiki across the top of the page and on the Quick Launch bar.
These links differ from wiki links placed directly on the wiki page by users as they are specifically managed by the wiki administrator. You can also drag and drop links to rearrange them. On the wiki page that you want to edit, click Edit Links at the top of the page, or Edit Links in the Quick Launch bar. Click the Link gadget. Enter the text for the Text to Display field for the link. This determines how the link appears on the page. Enter the URL address in the Address field. To rearrange links in the Quick Launch bar or at the top of the wiki page, click Edit Links , select any link, and drag it to a new position in its section.
To edit links in the Quick Launch bar or at the top of the wiki page, click Edit Links , select any link, and then click to place the cursor in any location of the link text. Click the Edit a Link tool to edit the contents of the link, including its address. You can use wiki links to link pages together by simply using the page name surrounded by double square brackets. You create wiki links the same way whether you are linking to existing wiki pages or pages that do not exist yet.
For example, if your team will be creating a link later for Training Issues, you can go ahead and insert the link to the page now by typing [[Training Issues]]. After you save the page, the link to your future page appears with a dotted line under it. To create the page later, someone can click the underlined placeholder link and then click Create.
Type [[ and then begin typing the name of the page. The wiki will suggest page names that start with what you are typing. Type a new page name followed by ]]. If you type a new page name, you will create a link to a page which has not yet been created. Your finished page name should be surrounded by double square brackets, like this: [[Page Name]].
Tips: To quickly add a link from a wiki page back to the home page for your wiki, type [[Home]]. You can link to many objects in SharePoint, not just pages. Here are some examples of links:. To display double opening or closing brackets without making a link, type a backslash before the two brackets.
You can create wiki placeholder links to pages that do not exist yet. Creating placeholder links helps people create the wiki in smaller pieces without worrying about creating every page in the wiki all at once. A placeholder wiki link has a dotted line beneath it. You can edit wiki links, as well as the display text that someone sees when they click the link.
Wiki links are different from hyperlinks to pages or websites outside of the wiki. To edit or change hyperlinks, use the Format tab on the Link Tools contextual tab of the ribbon instead. You might need to edit the display text for a wiki link if the name of the page you want to link to is not clear in the context of the page where you are inserting the link. For example, if the page for brainstorming ideas about the first chapter of a book is named CH1, you might want "Chapter One" as the display text for the link, so that the purpose of the page is clearer.
To edit the path of the link so that it points to a different page, click between the two sets of double-square brackets [[ and ]] , and then replace the current link with the name of the page that you want to link to.
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