MediaWiki Professionals

Juris Informatica is in the business of publishing legal Web sites. In short, we launch a site about a certain legal topic and then use our search engine optimization techniques to drive traffic to that site. Prospective clients who are visiting the site call or e-mail us. One of our attorneys screen the clients and if they have a good case, refers that client to an appropriate attorney in their part of the country. In exchange, we receive a substantial referral fee. It’s a very unique, interesting and frankly a very lucrative business.

Although we are a new company, so far we have been quite successful, with several major cases (including a $20 million case) having been referred to suitable legal counsel. In the next two years, we expect to launch about 5 sites a month, for a total of 500 sites in the next 5 years. Perhaps 5 to 10 of these sites will be wikis, the rest will be WordPress sites. Thus, we will not be operating a wikifarm. We are looking for someone to act as a system administrator for the wikis (and perhaps the WordPress sites if you are interested, but that is not necessary and if you do not know WordPress, that is OK). Someone else would be responsible for content and you do not need to know anything about law.

Some of the sites we will be launching will be wikis and thus we are looking for a couple of really good MediaWiki administrator.

We are also looking for someone who will serve as the manager of the wiki. Ideally they would have some experience with wikis and MediaWiki in particular, but they do not need to be as technical as the systems administrator.

Ideal Background

Ideal background for the systems administrator includes:

Knows MediaWiki well
Knows how to program in PHP
Excellent oral and written communication skills

Please Read

If you are interested in this position, you should read the following:

If You Are Interested

If you are interested, please write to James Mitchell at jmitchell@kensingtonllc.com and send him the following information. Please include a resume if you have one. Please also send a copy of your answers to recruiting@kensingtonllc.com. Please include the questions in your e-mails.

What is your full name?
What is your e-mail address?
Please list all of your phone numbers.
Which number is best to call you on? As noted below, please state this in your local time and in Boston time.
Do you have Skype?
If so, what is your Skype ID? (If you live outside the United States, please install Skype (www.skype.com) now (ideally before you fill out this form), so that when we want to call you after receiving your e-mail, we can do so.)
Where do you live?
James Mitchell lives in Boston, and Boston is the same time zone as New York City, namely East Coast time zone. When it is 9 a.m. in Boston, what time is it in your time zone? In other words, how many hours ahead or behind Boston are you?
How well do you know MediaWiki? (1-10)
For how many years have you been using MediaWiki? (1-10)
Please tell us briefly what you are doing currently professionally (or did professionally) and how MediaWiki is involved with your job.
For which wikis are you the systems administrator (or otherwise involved with)? Please include the URLs and your role for each site.
Do you know how to program PHP? If so, how well and for how many years have you been programming in PHP? (1-10)
Are there any extensions to MediaWiki that you have used? If so, which ones?
Have you programmed any extensions to WikiMedia? Would you be able to?
Have you written any skins for WikiMedia? Would you be able to?
For our legal wikis, we would like to prevent anonymous users from posting (as opposed to reading) comments? How would you implement that?
How much have you looked at the source code for MediaWiki?
How well do you know Linux? (1-10)
How well do you know Apache? (1-10)
How well do you know MySQL? (1-10)
Are there any books on MediaWiki that you would recommend?
Are there any Web sites or blogs on MediaWiki that you would recommend?
Have you used any other wiki software packages? If so, which ones?
How much experience do you have with Subversion (the version control software package)? (1-10) One member of our team needs to act as the Subversion systems administrator. Do you have the skills to do that? Would you be willing to do that?
How good are you at testing and quality control? (1-10) At least one member of our team needs to be in charge of testing and quality control. Do you have the skills to do that? Would you be willing to do that?
Tell us about the PC you are running? Windows? Mac? Which version?
Which version of Microsoft Office are you currently using?
How many hours per week are you able to devote to this opportunity?
Over the next year, how many hours per week are you willing to work on this project?
We want to get a sense of when you would be able to work, with times stated in both your time and in Boston time. Monday through Friday, when would you be able to work and for how many hours each day? Again, please state both your local time and Boston time.
On Saturdays and Sundays, when you be able to work and for how many hours each day? Please state in your local time as well as Boston time.
What else is going on your life that we should know about? Job? Kids? Board memberships? What other time commitments do you have?
How soon would you be able to start?
Anything else we should know about you?
Are there any topics for new Web sites you think would be particularly worthwhile?
How reachable by telephone are you in the daytime, nighttime and weekends.
We will most likely want to talk with you on the phone once a day or at least every other day. How do you feel about that?
We are looking for developers with a high level of personal responsibility, who are not flaky, who are good at returning phone calls, who have low total cost of interaction. How does this apply to you?
If we or one of our associates sent you an e-mail through Linkedin, there was a nine digit number towards the end of the e-mail, immediate after their name. It would be in the format of 100-029-987, or something like that. Please list that number if you can find it in the e-mail we sent to you. If you cannot, do not worry about it.
We are looking for managers/editors with a high level of personal responsibility, who are not flaky, who are good at returning phone calls, who have low total cost of interaction. How does this apply to you?
What other questions should we have asked?

Please send your answers (along with the questions) to both jmitchell@kensingtonllc.com and recruiting@kensingtonllc.com. Please include a resume if you have one.

Thank you for your interest and we will respond to every inquiry with 24 hours.