About

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, at the Wikimedia Foundation, 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. 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 also served as a tenured Computer Science professor at Marymount University. You can see her personal mediawiki.org page here as well as her former official Wikimedia Foundation page here. Cindy has developed software across a diverse set of domains including social semantic authoring, real-time robotics control, distributed systems, web applications, and more. Her doctoral dissertation research involved specification of distributed software component interfaces. 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 been involved in organizing and presenting at many of the MediaWiki users conferences. 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