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
On 25/10/11 16:22, Alolita Sharma wrote:
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.
In 2003, Gabriel floated down to us from heaven on a beam of light. His skill in web development made the rest of us feel like amateurs (which we kind of were). He led us through the transition from a website running on two tiny apache servers, to a complex cluster of 8-12 servers. He set up Squid on the new servers and implemented the necessary support for it in MediaWiki.
He gave us the Monobook skin, which was so awesome compared to what we had before that we switched over to it quickly and without controversy. And he worked on the parser, including a rewrite of Parser::doBlockLevels() which survives to the current day.
I'm certainly glad to have him back.
-- Tim Starling
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm certainly glad to have him back.
I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long), so I haven't experienced the divine qualities Tim attributes to you first-hand. But if Tim Starling praises someone like that, I tend to believe him. Welcome!
BTW, random question: are you in the office, or do you work remotely? This wasn't quite clear to me from this thread.
Roan
Gabriel is based in Germany so working remotely :-)
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm certainly glad to have him back.
I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long), so I haven't experienced the divine qualities Tim attributes to you first-hand. But if Tim Starling praises someone like that, I tend to believe him. Welcome!
BTW, random question: are you in the office, or do you work remotely? This wasn't quite clear to me from this thread.
Roan
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Roan Kattouw wrote:
I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long)
I wasn't either, but his name rang a bellin my head "He was an old old contributor. Is this the same one?" Reading Alolita mail cleared it :)
Welcome to the new, enterprisey Wikimedia, Gabriel.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Roan Kattouw wrote:
I wasn't around back then (I've been around for quite a while, but not for quite that long)
I wasn't either, but his name rang a bellin my head "He was an old old contributor. Is this the same one?" Reading Alolita mail cleared it :)
Welcome to the new, enterprisey Wikimedia, Gabriel.
Ahem, I believe the term you want is 'webscale.'
-Chad
Welcome, Gabriel. I'm looking forward to working with you, and to seeing you posting on the parser/visual editor list about our progress on that very important endeavor! cc'ing the parser list (wikitext-l).
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Alolita Sharma Director, Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Alolita Sharma asharma@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 :-)
Welcome back, Gabriel! It's so good to see more of the early MediaWikiers joining us.
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