Wiki Maintainer Application - CrimsonFig

[CrimsonFig]

Ckey/BYOND Username: CrimsonFig
Position Being Applied For: Wiki Maintainer 
Past Experiences/Knowledge: I've got strong knowledge of markdown, text formatting, and web development along with plenty of experience from creating and maintaining over 30 pages on 'USAA Enterprise Wiki' as a Software Engineer II at USAA for the past year. Additionally, this experience has me collaborating with teammates and management on a daily basis, so I should be able to work well with the various staff members. Also, given around 3 years of experience working with various computer languages such as Java and Python, I'm able to comprehend the github code to supplement my ability to maintain the wiki and discover possibly out-dated info.
Examples of Past Work: Unfortunately, I don't really have any examples directly tied to aurora, except maybe asking UnknownMurder to update Norepinephrine's recipe to equal parts acetone, carbon, sugar. While I'm also unable to share examples from work for a variety of reasons, I do have a personal github project that I have documentation on that i can show as an example: github.com/crimsonFig/Interactive_Sylladex.
Additional Comments: I have a particular passion for documentation as seeing incorrect/out-dated and missing information on the wiki has always been a sore for me and by extension anyone else who uses the wiki often. Given it being a source of information for both new players and veteran admins alike, and given the scarcity of maintainers, I really want to be able to be help and contribute as needed for the wiki so myself and others do not have to be often frustrated at a mismatch between the expectations set by the wiki and what actually happens when they try to act on the knowledge in game. I'm willing to be fully transparent to inquiries about my past experience/knowledge/works to help my case. ?

Edited June 30, 2020 by CrimsonFig
updated past experience to include programming knowledge

[UnknownMurder]

I can vouch that @CrimsonFig was very helpful to me. As you know, the wiki maintainer team at the moment cares how long you'll put in your time and effort into this wiki work. I have a "summer volunteer contract" with Coalf. You won't see me very active by the mid-August or end of August. I'll be back to college finishing up my last year of college. 

I just want to say something about programming. I applied to this position thinking I would learn more about programming. Turns out, I was wrong. I was dead wrong after experiencing work. There's no programming involved. It's mostly related to hypertext markup language/cascading style sheets. You will not expect Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Python, or any of those kind of work. Also, I'm following you on GitHub as emr9018 if that's okay with you. 

I'd like to share three things that you'll get the mutual feeling as I do. I've mentioned this on discord and I shall mention it here again. 

1. Can audience read and understand the intended message?
2. Is the information shown correct and factual?
3. Is this what the admin team/related lore member wants to show?

Let me know your opinions on any of the things I said above whenever you can.

 

[CrimsonFig]

11 minutes ago, UnknownMurder said:

I just want to say something about programming. I applied to this position thinking I would learn more about programming. Turns out, I was wrong. I was dead wrong after experiencing work. There's no programming involved. It's mostly related to hypertext markup language/cascading style sheets. You will not expect Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Python, or any of those kind of work. Also, I'm following you on GitHub as emr9018 if that's okay with you. 

I'd like to share three things that you'll get the mutual feeling as I do. I've mentioned this on discord and I shall mention it here again. 

1. Can audience read and understand the intended message?
2. Is the information shown correct and factual?
3. Is this what the admin team/related lore member wants to show?

Let me know your opinions on any of the things I said above whenever you can.

 

Ahh, so i'll mostly be handling some classic html and css, glad to hear it should be simple to operate on  and thanks for the follow!! 

I think those three things are very on point to documentation! Making sure that the correct information that is desired to be expressed is able to successfully connect with the reader is the core of effective communication. I'm also sure achieving that goal is a group effort, between double checking facts, asking staff to clarify things we might not understand, and having work checked by others to make sure the quality is good and meets the desired result.

 

[UnknownMurder]

Yes and MediaWiki Format is pretty much all you need to know to get started. It's fairly easy and more pickier than BBCode. That being said, you were an extremely helpful contributor and I will advocate you being on the team. We can explain more once you're on the team with what work, updates, addition, and deletion we need to do.

Be well and be safe. 

[The7thLain]

I cannot speak to their coding expertise as I have not seen it personally, but I can say that @CrimsonFig is a person who is both responsible and entertaining. They are a nice person to have around and I believe that their character and attitude would be welcome in whatever position they apply for, in this case Wiki Maintainer. They are a person who is sensible, kind, and practical who I think would do perfectly fine in the position if they were able to pair this with their technical know-how, of which I am sure they are capable of doing.

In short, +1

[Coalf]

I see no issue and so far I've gotten only recommendation.

Accepted!

[UnknownMurder]

Congrats.