Projects
In a word: I like doing stuff.
Below are a few things I've worked on. This list is not exhaustive and I'm still (as of Summer 2015) going through my archives to write summaries for the activities that aren't yet included.
In a word: I like doing stuff.
Below are a few things I've worked on. This list is not exhaustive and I'm still (as of Summer 2015) going through my archives to write summaries for the activities that aren't yet included.
In 2015, I supported the VisualEditor team with research and analyses, notably by performing a weekly qualitative review of edits made with VisualEditor, and by analyzing the most cited domains in Wikipedia references.
In 2014 and 2015, I led the File metadata cleanup drive, a community effort to fix file description pages and tweak license templates, to ensure that multimedia files consistently contain machine-readable metadata across Wikimedia wikis.
An illustrated interactive timeline that highlights the main and coolest stories about what happened on Wikipedia and across the Wikimedia movement in 2013.
Every week, tech ambassadors assemble, simplify and translate “Tech News,” a curated newsletter then delivered to hundreds of subscribers across wikis. But how exactly did this start, how does it work behind the scenes, and how does it fit within our efforts to bring developers and users closer together?
Fumseck is a responsive, mobile-first theme for WordPress that I built specifically for this site. It’s based on the Solarized color scheme and the Latin Modern font family.
An experiment in wikiarchaeology, during which I attempted to provide a high-level view of the history of Wikipedia and its community.
I contributed a chapter on User Experience to the Open Advice book, a collection of essays, stories and lessons learned by members of the Free Software community, edited by Lydia Pintscher.
In 2011, I authored a chapter about the architecture of MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia and its sister sites, for inclusion in the book The Architecture of Open Source Applications, volume 2. The chapter was based on the shared knowledge of MediaWiki developers, and written in collaboration with Sumana Harihareswara.
From 2011 to 2014, I managed technical communications at the Wikimedia Foundation. This notably included: assembling, editing and publishing monthly technical reports; authoring and editing technical blog posts; and creating and maintaining tools and processes for project documentation.
As part of the Multimedia Usability project, in collaboration with illustrator Michael Bartalos, I led a project to design a licensing tutorial with the Wikimedia Commons community, and integrate it into the new UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
As part of the Multimedia Usability Project, I researched, designed and tested a new interface for uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, the free media library associated with Wikipedia.
In 2009, I organized one of the first annual meetings of national Wikimedia chapters, as part of the annual Wikimedia Conference. Representatives from 23 countries attended the conference, along with Wikimedia Foundation staff.
For three years, I worked at the crossroads of physics, microelectronics, biology and chemistry to develop miniaturized laboratories based on a polymer that changes properties with temperature.
In 2008, I wrote a Wikipedia handbook in French with Florence Devouard.
A play we staged in college where I played the title role of a philandering Diderot. In a bathrobe.
For two years, I was a member of a student club supporting a charity that provides food to the needy, notably by raising funds through a series of concerts.
In 2005 and 2006, I co-organized the Interclubs shows, an annual series of scripted performances bringing together hundreds of students from dozens of clubs, from the astronomy club, to the Salsa dance club, to the karate club, to the library club. This included writing the play’s script, creating the décor and costumes, coordinating the appearances of all the clubs, and surviving a ridiculous number of puns.