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Job Title

Software Developer

Employment Duration

August 2009 to April 2010

About the Wikipedia Usability Initiative

The Wikipedia Usability Initiative was realized by a grant from the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation. The goal of this initiative is to measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by improving the underlying software on the basis of user behavioral studies, thereby reducing barriers to public participation. This position is part of the program team for the initiative.

For more information, please see the press release.

Job Purpose

The core responsibility of this position is to design, develop, test and deploy new features and improvements of the MediaWiki software for the the Wikipedia usability initiative by working closely with the interaction designer and peer developers of MediaWiki.

Reports to

Program Manager

Job Summary
  • Propose software design solutions and obtain consensus from senior and peer tech teams
  • Create implementation prototypes based on design concepts
  • Develop, test, and deploy new features and improvements to the MediaWiki core and to MediaWiki extensions
  • Collaborate in designing and implementing QA processes including multi-lingual and performance tests
  • Work closely with operations staff to ensure proper integration with testing and production systems
Required Qualifications
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years experience as a software developer is required
  • Experience with PHP development is required
  • Extensive experience with AJAX/HTML/CSS is required
  • Experience with cross-browser compatibility testing is required
  • Experience with security implications of JavaScript/PHP software is required
  • Experience with LAMP is a major plus
  • Experience with testing and analyzing usability and accessibility is a major plus
  • Experience with MediaWiki is a major plus
  • An understanding of internationalizing and localizing software products a major plus
  • Any other free/open software development experience highly welcome
  • 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 and language contexts
Salary

The salary is in the range of $75,000 to $85,000 plus benefits, commensurate with experience.

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 33 staff members. Wikimedia is supported by local chapter organizations in 27 countries or regions.

Apply

Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs(at)wikimedia.org before August 28, 2009. Please put the position title (Software Developer) in your subject line.

Applications that do not include a cover letter will not be considered. This position will be filled in August 2009. Due to the volume of responses that we anticipate we will not reply to all applications, so please do not interpret our silence as a lack of interest.

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.

Based in San Francisco, CA., but remote candidates will be considered.

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