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Please send a CV and cover letter to brion AT wikimedia DOT org, before February 15, 2007. Please put the position title in your subject line.
Please send a CV and cover letter to brion AT wikimedia DOT org, before February 15, 2008. Please put the position title in your subject line.


Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.
Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.

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WMF Job Description: Software Developer / IT Support

JOB TITLE

Software Developer / IT Support

JOB PURPOSE

Your responsibilities will be twofold:

First, you'll be assisting in the ongoing development of MediaWiki and other open-source web applications that the Wikimedia Foundation operates its sites on.

Second, you'll be providing technical support for our small office headquarters, a heterogeneous environment with Linux, Mac, and Windows desktops and laptops, networked printers, and a VOIP phone system.

This is a junior-level position.

JOB SUMMARY

Basic office IT support is reseting passwords for end-user workstations, troubleshooting software issues, identifying hardware issues, and being the 'hands on' person for the Technical Team.

Developer responsibilities:

  • Triage bug reports and feature requests
  • Bug fixes and extension development for MediaWiki
  • Bug fixes and extension development on other Linux-based utilities as required (Bourne shell, Python, and Java may come up)

Support responsibilities:

  • Support with Windows XP Professional
  • Support with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
  • Support with Ubuntu Desktop 7.10
  • Support with both OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice, and MS Office.
  • Support for endusers using Firefox and Thunderbird, as well as IRC (various clients).
  • Very basic support of Quickbooks 2007.
  • Intermediate use of MediaWiki installations from end-user standpoint.
  • General networking and routing understanding. (Nothing advanced, beginner to intermediate.)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Familiarity with LAMP-style web development
  • Quick learner who can explore code
  • Experience with MediaWiki a big plus
  • Experience with other PHP/MySQL-style apps a plus
  • Linux/Unix shell, Python, Java, etc experience welcome
  • Any other free/open software development experience highly welcome
  • You must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment.
  • Experience with wikis and participatory production environments is a plus.
  • Understanding of the free culture movement is a plus.
  • The ideal candidate will be creative, highly motivated, and able to operate effectively in multiple cultural contexts.

Please provide URLs to any existing free software work you may have done (own software or patches to other packages) if possible – we'd love to see what you can do! Let us know why this position interests you.

TO APPLY

Please send a CV and cover letter to brion AT wikimedia DOT org, before February 15, 2008. Please put the position title in your subject line.

Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.

Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

This position is based in our San Francisco headquarters. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make that clear in your cover letter.

ABOUT WMF

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with headquarters in San Francisco, California. It is fully audited and has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most-visited websites in the world.