User:Cindy.cicalese

This is the personal page for Cindy Cicalese, who is a Principal Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team aka Core Platform Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. She previously served as a Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on that team. You can see her official Wikimedia Foundation page here. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at the MITRE Corporation. She has developed software across a diverse set of domains including social semantic authoring, real-time robotics control, distributed systems, web applications, and more. She was a tenured computer science professor at Marymount University in Arlington, VA before returning to MITRE. She has developed a suite of MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki extensions that are especially helpful for enterprise use of wikis. She serves in a volunteer capacity on the Board of the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group.

Contributed Open Source MediaWiki Extensions

 * PluggableAuth
 * OpenID Connect
 * SimpleSAMLphp
 * Email Authorization
 * LDAP Authorization (with Ian Campbell)
 * Display Title
 * Comment Streams (with Jason Ji)
 * Title Icon
 * Create User Page
 * Semantic Rating
 * Semantic Dependency
 * Safe Delete
 * Hierarchy Builder (with Kevin Ji)

Other Contributions

 * remediated a XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki core
 * contributed functionality for retrieving page properties to MediaWiki core
 * contributed vagrant roles for Semantic MediaWiki and other useful extensions
 * contributed a set of Ansible playbooks for wiki farm/family management
 * assumed responsibility for and reimplemented Semantic Title, an extension which was unmaintained
 * worked with Yaron Koren to add mapping parameters to Semantic Forms at NYC Enterprise MediaWiki Hackathon
 * submitted bug fixes and new functionality to Cargo
 * implemented a previous Java applet version of VIKI and consulted on the implementation of the new, improved D3/JavaScript version by Jason Ji

Conference Presentations and Organization

 * EMWCon Spring 2020
 * Program Chair
 * SMWCon Fall 2019
 * The WMF Core Platform Team: Roadmap Update and Q&A
 * Smart iconography on your wiki
 * EMWCon Spring 2019
 * Program Chair
 * Transitioning an Existing Wiki to Incorporate Structured Data
 * Panelist: State of the MediaWiki Ecosystem
 * EMWCon Spring 2018:
 * Chair Emeritus
 * Toward a MediaWiki Roadmap
 * Panel Discussion: MediaWiki Best Practices
 * EMWCon Spring 2017:
 * General Chair
 * Authentication and Authorization in Enterprise Wikis
 * EMWCon Spring 2016:
 * Anatomy of a Cyber Taxonomy Development Wiki
 * Panel Discussion: Towards a "MediaWiki Foundation"
 * SMWCon Spring 2015:
 * The Why and How of Wiki Farms
 * Panel on Future of Semantic Web + SMW + MW
 * SMWCon Spring 2014:
 * Semantic MediaWiki Farm Infrastructure for Multi-Organizational Sharing
 * SMWCon Fall 2013:
 * Revolutionizing Page Naming with Semantic Properties