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Gerg? Tisza
Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
About me
I am Gerg? Tisza, a developer and Wikimedian from
Hungary
. I've been involved with the movement since 2004, as an editor, administrator, tool developer, translator and chapter member. Since 2013 I have been working for the
Wikimedia Foundation
and living in
San Francisco
. For more information, see my
LinkedIn profile
.
My work
I am a member of the Foundation's
MediaWiki Platform Team
. Previously I have worked in the
old Multimedia team
, the
Product Infrastructure team
and the
Growth team
.
Projects I have worked on in the past include
CommonsMetadata
,
Media Viewer
UploadWizard
,
OAuth
,
SessionManager and AuthManager
,
Multi-Content Revisions
,
ReadingLists
,
the Parsoid PHP port
,
GrowthExperiments
and
CentralAuth
. I have been marginally involved with
MediaWiki-Vagrant
,
ORES
,
TemplateStyles
,
PageViewInfo
and
Structured data on Commons
as well.
Some personal projects I am sometimes working on:
Wikispore
,
Matrix
, security (e.g.
separating JS editing permissions
),
Sentry
and the
Developer Wishlist
.
Some thoughts on strategy:
We need a wikiproject incubator to enable innovation.
(2017 developer summit position statement),
Reliable, accessible information on life-altering topics
(2015 Reading department strategy).
You can see what I am doing at the moment on Phabricator (
profile
,
team board
,
personal board
) and
Gerrit
.
Disclaimer:
I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.