Before officially joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as a research engineer contractor on the research team for about a year. In the foundation, contractors are recruited by different teams to work on specific projects. The length of the contract depends on the project you work on. In my case, I first got a five-month contract, and then another one-year contract. Where does the foundation find a suitable contractor? Open source internship programs like GSoC and Outreachy are good sources of talent. Recently, more and more former Outreachy interns have become contractors in the foundation.
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