Cindy.cicalese

This is the personal page for Cindy Cicalese, who is a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. She previously served as a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the Platform Engineering Team aka Core Platform 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

Current:

• PluggableAuth
• OpenID Connect
• SimpleSAMLphp
• Email Authorization
• Display Title
• Comment Streams (with Jason Ji)
• Title Icon
• Create User Page
• Version Compare

Past:

• 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

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Spring 2024
  • Program Chair
• EMWCon Spring 2023
  • Keynote: Measuring MediaWiki Usage
  • Panel: MediaWiki Administration
• SMWCon Fall 2022
  • General Chair
• EMWCon Spring 2022
  • State of the PluggableAuth Family
  • Panelist: Future of Enterprise MediaWiki
• SMWCon Fall 2021
  • Workshop: MediaWiki & Docker (facilitator)
• EMWCon Spring 2021
  • Panel: Wikimedia & Enterprise MediaWiki
• 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

Guest on Between the Brackets

• Episode 120
• Episode 50
• Episode 1

See Also

• Cindy's user page on semantic-mediawiki.org
• MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
• Mastodon