cinzyuwaw:SSethi (WMF)
About me
I originally hail from Bikaner, India and currently live in San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation, I was a student researcher at the MIT Media Lab exploring how online platforms for learning could be made more peer-led, engaging, participatory and accessible to diverse populations. At the Media Lab, I contributed to the design, development, and research of Unhangout, a platform for running large-scale unconference style events online.
Before MIT, I was working as a software developer with a startup organization in India. As an undergrad, I was involved with the open source community GNOME and its educational project GCompris.
My work
I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in 2016. Since June 2023, I have been part of the Language and Product Localization team. In this role, I lead projects and initiatives under Language Onboarding and Development, including Community Meetings, Starter Kit, research work (Engage Native Speakers and Future of Language Incubation), newsletters, technical support efforts and collaborations with Wikimedia communities and external partners such as the Unicode Consortium and Language Diversity Hub. My work focuses on supporting and nurturing technical contributors and communities working on language-specific projects across the Wikimedia ecosystem.
Before this, I was part of the Technical Engagement team, where I contributed to broader technical outreach, community engagement, and capacity building efforts. My work included coordinating Wikimedia participation in outreach programs like Google Summer of Code and Outreachy, designing annual Wikimedia Hackathon programs, running capacity-building initiatives for different communities (including Small Wiki Toolkits), developing sample code and tutorials demonstrating best practices around the MediaWiki API (read Fixing the docs is a group effort ), building tools to improve developer support workflows such as Toolhub, and launching developer recognition initiatives such as the Tech Swag Program.
As part of a collaboration with Community Tech, I supported efforts to engage volunteer developers through projects identified in the Community Wishlist Survey by organizing Wishathons.
For a complete list of my tasks, you can read my Phabricator profile here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/people/tasks/8466/
Contact me
E-mail: ssethi
wikimedia.org
Telegram: @srishakatux
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