User:Eloquence/CV

Wiki CV

MediaWiki	Organization	Wikimedia Projects
Code: lead developer of Wikidata and WiktionaryZ subpages (can be enabled or disabled on a per-namespace basis) ability to edit individual sections graphical edit toolbar table of contents feature Wikimedia Commons support double-click editing Go button to view articles directly Talk pages for anonymous users; "You have new messages" text w:Wikipedia:Book sources Improvements to deletion, e.g. pre-fill reason box with content "Ancient pages" diff-link and history link in user contributions list automatically add section titles to the edit summary links in edit summaries external editor support Help: namespace, custom extra namespaces, and finally the namespace manager and complete namespace redesign multiline upload description optional email authentication requirement for editing (based on existing auth code) inputbox extension designed MediaWiki logo a lot of small stuff Specs and ideas: LiquidThreads (now a Google Summer of Code project) Multilingual MediaWiki Single login specifications (team effort) InstantCommons (now being implemented with funding from Kennisnet)	Organizational work: Wikinews proposal and vote managed Wikinews language creation for some time Wikimedia Commons proposal and project plan foundation-l (based on Foundation-L Proposal) Started IRC channels: #wikipedia, #mediawiki and #wikinews. Requests for permissions International logo contest (Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki logos), Commons logo contest, helped with Wikinews logo contest suggested and set up first fundraising campaign which brought us $40,000 served as Chief Research Officer from May to August 2005 (see comments below) member of the Program Committee for Wikimania 2005 visited Google to discuss potential partnerships and future developments started Cafepress shop Work around Wikipedia: co-initiated the Free Content Definition wrote a book about wikis, weblogs, and open source (in German) wrote articles about Wikipedia and MediaWiki for Telepolis, c't, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Linux Magazine, and others have spoken about the project at numerous conferences since 2003, most notably: Open Cultures, Vienna, June 5 & 6, 2003 Wizards of OS 3, June 2004 (one of the first international Wikipedia meetups and the founding meeting for the German chapter) OhmyNews conference in Seoul, South Korea, June 2005 (Wikinews, see my coverage) Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt; and Wikimania 2006, Boston Free/Libre and Open Source Software Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, 2005 (with Angela) Keynotes in the Munich city hall, October 2005, and at the Wikiposium in Vienna, November 2005 see my personal homepage for up-to-date info and links, and my calendar for upcoming events moderated three workshops teaching people how to use Wikipedia and Wikinews manage a small wiki hosting company, myoo.de	English Wikipedia: Over 15,000 edits to numerous articles, discussions and policies Implemented the first four-element dynamic Main Page design (Featured article, Selected anniversaries, Did you know, In the news), and the division into content Main Page and Community Portal w:Wikipedia:Featured article candidates w:Wikipedia:Featured pictures, w:Template:Pic of the day w:Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial w:Wikipedia:Lead section w:Wikipedia:Remove personal attacks invented the first sister project template, w:Template:Wikiquote, and started Wikipedia:Sister projects to collect these English Wikinews: Wrote many of the initial policies and processes, including n:Main Page n:Wikinews:Workspace n:Wikinews:Water cooler n:Wikinews:Administrators n:Wikinews:Site news n:Wikinews:Mission statement n:Wikinews:Style guide n:Wikinews:Deletion requests n:Wikinews:Submit a story n:Wikinews:Writing contest Wrote three detailed "State of the Wiki" reports Contributed several detailed stories and interviews Created WORTNET Wikimedia Commons: Coordinated upload of 10,000 paintings donated by Directmedia Invented and operate User:FlickrLickr, a collaborative review process for Creative Commons pictures from Flickr (over 5,000 uploads so far) started the commons:Commons:File upload service, provided the upload script and operated commons:User:File Upload Bot (Eloquence) coordinated and wrote most of 100,000 files press release

In pictures

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  Excerpt from my book, "Die heimliche Medienrevolution", which covers Wikipedia in detail. The first edition is available under a GFDL/CC-BY-SA dual-license.
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  At the FLOSS workshop in Pretoria, South Africa in 2005 (second from right). I have spoken at many conferences internationally about Wikimedia and its projects.
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  WiktionaryZ editing interface. I currently manage and lead the development of the project, which seeks to build a better database model and editing interface for a multilingual dictionary and thesaurus.
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  I visited the OhmyNews citizen journalism forum in Seoul, South Korea in 2005 and provided Wikinews coverage from the event.
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  Presenting semantic wiki technologies, including WiktionaryZ, at Wikimania 2006. To the right are Brion Vibber (Wikimedia CTO) and Denny Vrandevic (Semantic MediaWiki developer).
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  When I proposed Wikimedia Commons, I developed a detailed Commons:Project plan, including a redesigned upload form. In the end, the project was launched with no special functionality. One month later, I coded the feature to use images from Commons.
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  I initiated the Free Content and Expression Definition with Benjamin Mako Hill to give a clear meaning to the term.
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  One of about 6,000 images uploaded by FlickrLickr, a collaborative process I developed to vet freely licensed images from Flickr for inclusion in Wikimedia Commons.
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  Wikipedia's logo until September 2003. In mid-2003, I organized the international logo contest, which resulted in the current logos for Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, and MediaWiki.
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  The namespace manager is one of the most complex pieces of code I've worked on for MediaWiki. It is in the process of being merged into the standard distribution of the software.
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  One of 10,000 reproductions of paintings donated to us by Directmedia, a Berlin company (not all of them show chubby kids ;-). I coordinated the upload and metadata import.
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  Richard Stallman with Wikimania attendees. The Wikimedia community is at the core of the free culture movement. It is Wikimedia's greatest asset, and we must always make sure that it can be involved in everything we do.