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, 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 and her personal mediawiki.org 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