Job openings/Software Developer
From the Wikimedia Foundation
- Title
Software Developer
- Purpose
The core purpose if this job is the further development, testing, and deployment of MediaWiki and associated software driving Wikimedia's web-sites, including Wikipedia.
- Summary
- Development, testing, and deployment of new features and improvements to the MediaWiki core and extensions for use by Wikimedia's web sites
- Assisting end users and other developers in identifying and resolving issues with the software and configuration of Wikimedia's web-sites
- Configuration, customization, and development of other web-based and server-side software used internally and externally by Wikimedia to support operations
- Other duties as required
- Required Qualifications
- 5+ years experience with PHP/MySQL application development
- Experience with MediaWiki a big 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.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible non-profit charity dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most visited websites, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikinews and the Wikimedia Commons media repository. The organization has received numerous honors for its work, among them the Webby Award, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, the Japan Advertisers Association's Web Creation Award and the World Technology Award in Communications Technology.
The Wikimedia Foundation was created in 2003 to manage the operation of Wikipedia and its sister projects and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently employs 39 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 27 countries or regions.
Apply
Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs
wikimedia.org before August 27, 2008. Please put the position title (Software Developer) in your subject line.
Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered.
Also, 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.
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.
