Re: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Gabriel Wicke

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 :-)