User:Cindy.cicalese

This is the personal page for Cindy Cicalese, who is now the Product Manager for the MediaWiki Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation. 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

 * 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