
Before officially joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I worked as a research engineer contractor on the research team for about a year. In the foundation, in addition to permanent staff, temporary contractors are recruited by different teams to collaborate 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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