Everyone,
I'm delighted to announce that Ed Sanders has joined the VisualEditor[0] team as a software engineer from today. He will be focussed on the data structures and APIs inside the VisualEditor, and in particular its "data model" component. Ed will be working remotely from the UK.
Ed has worked as a Web front-end software engineer for several years, most recently working for TripAdvisor. He received his MA in Computer Science from Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Ed is a long-term contributor to Commons and the English Wikipedia, where he has been a sysop since 2004.[1] In his spare time, Ed enjoys photography, watching his local football team (real football, not handegg), Arsenal,[2] and sometimes doing both at the same time.
He'll be in the SF office for the next few weeks so be sure to stop by and say hi!
Please join me in welcoming Ed!
terry
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Welcome Ed!
On 02/11/2013 08:58 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
Everyone,
I'm delighted to announce that Ed Sanders has joined the VisualEditor[0] team as a software engineer from today. He will be focussed on the data structures and APIs inside the VisualEditor, and in particular its "data model" component. Ed will be working remotely from the UK.
Ed has worked as a Web front-end software engineer for several years, most recently working for TripAdvisor. He received his MA in Computer Science from Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Ed is a long-term contributor to Commons and the English Wikipedia, where he has been a sysop since 2004.[1] In his spare time, Ed enjoys photography, watching his local football team (real football, not handegg), Arsenal,[2] and sometimes doing both at the same time.
He'll be in the SF office for the next few weeks so be sure to stop by and say hi!
Please join me in welcoming Ed!
terry [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor [1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ed_g2s [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal
Welcome, Ed! Wow, sysop for the past eleven years! You have a lot of engineering expertise and community experience, and I am very grateful that WMF is getting the benefit of that. Thanks for joining us.
On 02/12/2013 12:23 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
On 02/11/2013 08:58 PM, Terry Chay wrote:
Everyone,
I'm delighted to announce that Ed Sanders has joined the VisualEditor[0] team as a software engineer from today. He will be focussed on the data structures and APIs inside the VisualEditor, and in particular its "data model" component. Ed will be working remotely from the UK.
Ed has worked as a Web front-end software engineer for several years, most recently working for TripAdvisor. He received his MA in Computer Science from Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Ed is a long-term contributor to Commons and the English Wikipedia, where he has been a sysop since 2004.[1] In his spare time, Ed enjoys photography, watching his local football team (real football, not handegg), Arsenal,[2] and sometimes doing both at the same time.
He'll be in the SF office for the next few weeks so be sure to stop by and say hi!
Please join me in welcoming Ed!
terry [0] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor [1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ed_g2s [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal
Welcome, Ed! Wow, sysop for the past eleven years! You have a lot of engineering expertise and community experience, and I am very grateful that WMF is getting the benefit of that. Thanks for joining us.
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*Sumana slinks off quietly*
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*Sumana slinks off quietly*
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing.
Welcome Ed!
--bawolff
On 12 February 2013 09:59, bawolff bawolff+wn@gmail.com wrote:
9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such thing.
I believe that our first sysops (i.e. accounts with some special status) were in 2002; before that, there was the shared "admin" password for which UseMod prompted you if you wanted to delete something, which was shared with some trusted users.
J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)
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