User:Ijon

Hullo.

I'm Asaf Bartov, and I've never committed code to Mediawiki. This despite having made a living in software since 1992. I enjoy C and Ruby, but have done a fair bit of Perl and far too much C++ (which is a terrible, terrible language) for my corporate overlords. Happily, I have managed to make promoting free knowledge and global awesomeness my day job, at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Now that programming is my hobby, I look forward to contributing some small tools and random hacks, because I still don't much care for PHP.

Stuff I'm working on (very intermittently):
 * Sitos -- an automatic Wikipedia citation generator from OPAC item pages. Currently supporting Aleph only, but soon to be extended to other ILSes.
 * Migrating the old etherpad content from etherpad.wikimedia.org somewhere safe, so we can merrily switch to Etherpad-lite
 * fixing some open bugs in Extension:DumpHTML and in Kiwix to promote the Offline projects.

Reach me at abartov AT wikimedia DOT org