Hi All,
Please join me in welcoming Gabriel Wicke as a Software Developer in
WMF’s Features Engineering team. Gabriel will be working on the
Visual Editor - Parser project, one of Wikimedia’s high priority
projects this year. He will be working closely with our guru Brion
Vibber on extending the parser to support WikiDom interactions with
the Visual Editor client being developed by lead engineer Trevor
Parscal, Wikia developer Inez Korczyński and front-end developer Neil
Kandalgaonkar.
As many of you may already know, Gabriel has been member of the
Wikipedia community for many years now. He discovered Wikipedia in
2003, when it was still running on two servers. Using his previous
experience with Squid caching, he got involved in technical
discussions and hacking. In 2004, Gabriel designed and implemented the
initial Squid caching layer, and later wrote the MonoBook skin.
After completing his Computer Science degree and doing research in
transactional distributed systems and Haskell, Gabriel is looking
forward to more practical challenges at Wikimedia.
Gabriel is an avid sportsman and professional sailor. When he’s not in
front of a computer coding away, he is often sailing on his own or
with friends. He was a member of the German national team in the
Olympic 49er class from 2001-2008, and is now racing an A-Class
catamaran. Pretty awesome!
Say hello to Gabriel online. He can be found on #mediawiki as gwicke.
Welcome back Gabriel! Great to have you on the Wikimedia Features team :-)
Alolita
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Alolita Sharma
Director, Features Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation