Wikimedia Foundation | Remote Worldwide | Full-time
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring several fully remote positions.
Wikimedia Foundation | Remote Worldwide | Full-time
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring several fully remote positions.
Wikimedia Foundation | Remote (Worldwide) |Full-time | wikimediafoundation.org
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring several fully remote positions.
Wikimedia Foundation | Remote (Worldwide) |Full-time | wikimediafoundation.org
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring several fully remote positions.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring several fully remote positions.
The Wikimedia Foundation,the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. We are responsible for the entire infrastructure stack, from multiple data centers, through networking and interconnects, to 1000s of servers and the application stack that runs on them.
The wikimedia foundation hires remote workers all over the world. They are also very stable with good job security. Some things are dysfunctional but it was a pretty awesome job in many ways - so much that I stuck with it for 7 years and only recently moved on to seek more exciting and challenging work. Wikimedia is almost always hiring and although it’s not the easiest job interview it’s worth a shot.
We make sure the tech behind Wikipedia and sister projects is up and running smoothly. A rather high number-of-users/supporting-staff ratio. All the work we do is public and open source (https://git.wikimedia.org/). You get to work with other paid staff from all around the world, as well as wonderful volunteers. We are about 200 people now, and have an office in San Francisco (although more than half the staff is remote).
Wikimedia Foundation, Senior Research Analysts, San Francisco
The organization behind Wikipedia is hiring a lot of people this year and the next. Here's the latest job posting:
We're looking for analysts in two different areas, Strategy and Global Development. Both of these positions start with quantitative analysis, but one is more focused on the websites and the other on fostering the global community. This is not just boring log analysis; we need people who are very independent and creative.
I guess I should note here as well that the Wikimedia Foundation does not write or curate any of the content of Wikipedia. All of this is done by unpaid volunteers.
When Wikipedia first became a top-ten website in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation had just 11 employees. It has expanded to something like 600 employees now, paid from funds that have always been collected on the premise that Wikipedia required money to remain online (not that the Foundation required money to expand its organization and staff headcount).
Speaking as a 15-year Wikipedia volunteer, I don't think the general public is quite aware of this.
Operating a network at the scale of Wikimedia's is no small task. AFAIK, The largest part of the budget goes to maintaining the servers and network (and paying the people who maintain them).
It's also worth noting that many of Wikimedia's staff are remote. I think more of the engineers are based in Europe than in the US and salaries are scaled somewhat based on the cost of living in each employees city/region. Wikimedia salary is almost certainly lower than the big tech companies but still pretty good for a non-profit and the benefits provided are very good if not quite up to the google level of luxury.
Disclosure: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation as a software engineer, however, I don't really know much about the financial details.
Disclaimer: This is just my personal opinion / observation and not representative of my employer.
> The Wikimedia Foundation's mission 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."
Its mission is not just "hosting" - actually creating an encyclopedia is much more than paying for the server costs.
Wikimedia produced many very useful projects which often integrate into Wikipedia, but work well standalone as well, and work towards the stated mission - projects like Commons, WikiData, WikiSource. Some projects are more useful than others, but that's just normal.
The Wikimedia Foundation is still hiring many of the same positions we were before all of this. You can see the currently-open positions at: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/
Like many successful foundations the Wikimedia Foundation has been taken over by empire builders. These types expand non-core mandates to justify increased headcount and gain clout & self-importance.
The tech requirements of Wikipedia are straightforward. The content comes from volunteers. The software development could be handled via a community development process like Debian's.
Let's be fair, the Wikimedia Foundation does many other worthwhile things besides keeping the English Wikipedia running. By way of example their latest full-project, Wikidata, was only started in 2012 and is already getting more edits than Wikipedia.
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer: https://grnh.se/d387b68e1us
- Database Administrator: https://grnh.se/7af2c7c61us
- Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering: https://grnh.se/00f271c81us
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform: https://grnh.se/1c9a21281us
- Senior Software Engineer - Growth: https://grnh.se/898cc11e1us
- Senior Software Engineer - Metrics Platform: https://grnh.se/2b9a95a11us
- Senior Software Engineer - Performance: https://grnh.se/be960c301us
- Senior Software Engineer - Structured Data: https://grnh.se/c06662ee1us
- Senior Software Engineer - Wikimedia Enterprise: https://grnh.se/1290aca81us
- Software Engineer: https://grnh.se/35f9053d1us
- Staff Systems Architect: https://grnh.se/f78eb2d11us
- Staff Software Engineer - API Platform: https://grnh.se/dc0341f21us
- Director of Product Security: https://grnh.se/5f4586e21us
- Data Engineer: https://grnh.se/277eb2aa1us
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