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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:
Context, for those confused (like me):
«If that name doesn’t mean anything to you, here is what it should mean. Vibber took over as lead developer of MediaWiki, the platform that runs Wikipedia, in early 2003. She was the first full-time employee the Wikimedia Foundation ever hired, and its first Chief Technical Officer. For more than twenty years she was the engineer you called when something deep in the code was broken.»
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Oops, meant to add: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943