Mobile Front End Engineer - short term contract - African-wikimedia-developers

10 May 2018

Hello African Wikimedia Developers Group!

I have heard great things about you from Derek and Felix in the last few
months and hope that I can hire one of you to work on project during the
month of June. I have included the job description in the second half of
this email.

If you would like to apply, please send me an email off-list with your CV
and a link to a mobile-friendly gadget you have created, gerrit commits, or
a link to a GitHub repository. I need resumes by Thursday, May 17th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Kacie

*Kacie Harold*
*Grants Program Officer*
*Wikimedia Foundation*

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Title: Contract Front End/UX Engineer (FormWizard)

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Contract UX/Front End Engineer
for a short project to make usability improvements to FormWizard
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FormWizard>. The contract engineer
will work independently with some guidance from members of the the
Community Resources, Design and Engineering teams.

FormWizard <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:FormWizard> is currently
used on the Grants portal as a way to create new grant proposals. This tool
doesn’t, however, work on mobile, which makes starting a grant proposal
from a mobile device almost impossible. The engineer working on this
project will support Foundation efforts to connect with users in emerging
communities, and engaging newcomers unfamiliar with wiki environment.

The contract engineer will make the following improvements to FormWizard:

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   Fixes:
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      FormWizard should work on mobile phones
      -

      FormWizard should work for non-logged in users
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      Migrate code to MediaWiki extension
      -

      Migrate to OOjs UI
      -

      New features (nice to have):
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      Simplify the workflow to register a new account through FormWizard

Skills:

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   Required: Front end/UX engineer (CSS, javascript, knowledge of MediaWiki
   software).
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   Nice to have: familiarity with Lua

Application instructions: Please include a link to a mobile-friendly gadget
you have created, gerrit commits, or a link to a GitHub repository.

Estimated time: 40 to 60 hours over 4 weeks.

Project dates: June 1 - June 30
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*Kacie Harold*
*Program Officer*
*Conference Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*