On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Alolita Sharma <[email protected]> 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. -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
