Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances
en
français
.
I also work for the Wikimedia Foundation, but I use
my staff account
for edits made in that official capacity. Take a look at that page for more about my work at the Foundation. Before November 2014, I had been using this account to do my official work as staff as well, so many older grant discussions here on Meta will show official edits by me.
Things I do
I have been a practicing (volunteer) Wikipedian for many years; my home wiki is the
, but I make occasional contributions on the
as well. I have a strong background in software engineering, and an abiding interest in literature, education, open access,
, and library science.
Also as an unpaid volunteer, I am a founding editor of
and a teacher of
and
. I used to serve on the board of
.
(All tools I write are
and their source code is
.)
-- a tool for finding
usage examples
from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata
GLAMify
-- for a given category on Commons,
suggests images
for articles based on another Wikipedia's use of those images
This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the
Ijonbot
bot account.
Wordpile
-- for a given
, calculate the
total word count
This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the
Ijonbot
bot account.
-- an
image downloader
for preparing offline Wikipedia dumps
-- a script sending a bidiurnal
e-mail
with a featured article, featured photo, and today in history, all from the
Hebrew Wikipedia,
to a list of subscribers. Subscribe here:
For developers
-- the current
Ruby Mediawiki API client
gem. I am its main maintainer starting 2023.
-- a Ruby gem providing
ActiveRecord mapping
of main Mediawiki DB entities and relationships
I've contributed some features and patches to
, the older
Ruby Mediawiki API client
gem. I still know it well, and am happy to help if you're trying to do something on Mediawiki in Ruby.
sigourney
