Welcome!
Awesome introduction indeed.
בתאריך 27 באוק 2014 20:49, "Tomasz Finc" <tf...@wikimedia.org> כתב:

> I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia
> Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
>
> Marielle will be working remotely from London, UK. She made her first
> website[1] in 1997 with Adobe PageMill 2.0[2], which according to one
> review at the time, "has terrific tables by today's standards for an
> HTML editor, although they're not bad by any standard."[3]. When her
> house finally got the internet in 1999, she first discovered the "view
> source" button. It wasn't until 5 years later in 2004 that she
> registered her first Wikipedia account, wherein she developed a lovely
> addiction to that damnable website.
>
> During a brief period of insanity (i.e. all of her undergraduate and
> graduate education) she considered becoming a Scientist, before
> realizing it's actually more fun to sit inside on a computer all day
> editing Wikipedia articles about Science rather than Doing Science and
> actually going outside, which, with the advent of vitamin D
> supplementation, is wholly unnecessary, and perhaps one could even
> say, *inadvisable*.
>
> Only now, having recently become a member of the 10 year club, has
> finally joined two of her passions: "making internet stuff" and
> "Wikipedia internet stuff" to work on VisualEditor, an HTML editor. To
> that end of continuing to edit articles about Science, and also making
> internet stuff, she did the FOSS Outreach Program for Women program
> this Summer[4], and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to
> make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
>
> She'll be continuing to do that, and maybe other things, but mostly
> that, as a contractor starting last month.
>
> Please join me in welcoming Marielle to the Wikimedia Foundation.
>
> --tomasz
>
> [1]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20030126114223/http://www.tufts.edu/as/engdept/mpwg/exhibits/stow/marielle.html
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMill
> [3]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20080620021417/http://www.soc.org.uk/bulletin/pagemil2.htm
> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mvolz/OPW_proposal_round_8
> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid
>
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