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Cindy Cicalese is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the Platform Engineering Team aka Core Platform Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can see her former 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 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.

She has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions as a volunteer, including:

PluggableAuth – A framework for pluggable authentication and authorization extensions
OpenIDConnect– Authentication using OpenID Connect providers
EmailAuthorization – Authorization based on email addresses
CommentStreams – A commenting system for wikis
DisplayTitle – Enhanced display title handling
TitleIcon – Add icons to page titles
VersionCompare – Compare the software versions of two wikis side-by-side
CreateUserPage – Automatically create user pages on login

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	[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-cicalese Cindy Cicalese] is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Engineering_Team Platform Engineering Team] aka [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team Core Platform Team] at the [https://www.wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation]. You can see her former official Wikimedia Foundation page [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CCicalese_(WMF) here]. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at [http://www.mitre.org 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 [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group].		[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-cicalese Cindy Cicalese] is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Engineering_Team Platform Engineering Team] aka [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team Core Platform Team] at the [https://www.wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation]. You can see her former official Wikimedia Foundation page [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CCicalese_(WMF) here]. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at [http://www.mitre.org 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 [https://marymount.edu/ Marymount University] 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 [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group].

	She has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions as a volunteer, including:		She has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions as a volunteer, including: