I noticed that the
Signpost carried this story too. This issue carried all sorts of stories about international scandals, but nothing about the local Minassian "scandal".
evad37 wrote:The commitee's authority over technical development at the WMF is also specified – it acts as an extension of the
Chief Technical Officer.
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Links being for clicking, one learns that:
the Sitting Head of WMF Research wrote:This page is about the legacy CTO role. For the current CTO opening, see
this page.
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where they don't seem to be looking for a CTO after all (though they are looking for a CMO / CCO, despite the fact that the 2017-2018 plan states they're using sub-contractors from Minassian Media again, maybe Jove Oliver still, who knows?). It also looks like they're having a bit of difficulty filling these posts?
In any case, I did eventually track down Victoria Coleman's hire on the WMF blog.... I see that she seems to like
War Games, which suggests to me she's probably fit onto the
Battleship-o-pediapop crew just fine.
Wikimedia Foundation wrote:She serves as a volunteer advisor on the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board and is a member of Lockheed Martin’s Technology Advisory Group.
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Katherine Maher wrote:She has also been a volunteer advisor on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Science and Technology advisory group as well as DARPA’s Defense Sciences Research Council.
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This, in addition to an already very impressive resume. And yet.. despite her manifest notability (Samsung, Intel, Yahoo!, HP, Technicolor, Lockheed, Berkeley), she doesn't have an en.wp page. I guess that's one of the perks of being the CTO or the communications contractor, huh? Mr. Minassian, that erstwhile reserver of the National Mall and Clinton Foundation PR guy still doesn't have one either despite Colbert having made him into a Wikileaks star. Though he's not quite at Victoria Coleman's notability levels, surely some good Doctor could make him a stub, no? Unless these folks are
meant to be wearing cloaks of mini-visibility?