[Wikitech-l] Brad Jorsch -> Senior Software Engineer

I'm pleased to announce that Brad Jorsch has been promoted to Senior Software Engineer. Brad joined the WMF in October of 2012 as a member of the MediaWiki Core team under RobLa [0]. Prior to joining the WMF, Brad was a strong contributor in a volunteer capacity both on-wiki and via code contributions. He has community earned admin rights on enwiki and his bots (AnomieBOT, AnomieBOT II, MediationBot, MedcabBot, ...) have made over 1.8 million edits on project wikis [1]. His community contributions led directly to his recruitment and hiring following the 2012 Berlin Hackathon. During his tenure at the WMF, Brad has become the de-facto owner of the Scribunto extension and the primary maintainer of the MediaWiki web API (api.php). During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, Brad has focused primarily on the MediaWiki web API (api.php). This largely solo project has included writing an RfC [2] and working on implementation not only in MediaWiki core but also across many affected extensions. Recent improvements have included JSON format updates [3] and the simplification of continuation mode processing for clients [4]. I look forward to working with Brad on the Wikimedia Reading Infrastructure team to continue stewardship of the MediaWiki web API [5] and expect to see continued excellence from his MediaWiki and Wikimedia contributions. [0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/064120.html [1]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/?user=AnomieBOT [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap [3]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-May/00008… [4]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-June/0000… [5]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081648.html Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855