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Rob Lanphier: Editing Wikipedia: Because Someone Has to...
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- Meetup Event: https://www.meetup.com/data-umbrella/events/284604324/
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Rob Lanphier, a longtime editor of English Wikipedia, will describe how to get over one's existential dread of SCREWING UP WIKIPEDIA and making some changes to the mistakes. As it turns out, there are a few mistakes on English Wikipedia, not to mention the hundreds of other languages (some of which were introduced by Rob). Rob will also describe some of the resources available to Python developers, and describe how to see which articles get loaded by people all over the world. He'll also leave plenty of time for questions, to each of which his answer may have something to do with the question.
Rob Lanphier (LAN-fear) is a graduate of University of Idaho, where he earned a Bachelors of Computer Science back in the early days of the Internet. After college, he moved to the Puget Sound region of Washington state, which includes such cities Bellevue, Bothell and Seattle. He worked at such companies as Microsoft, Asymetrix, Conjungi, and RealNetworks (the creators of RealAudio and RealVideo), and was simultaneously central to some of RealNetworks' most lasting work (R-T-S-P, S-M-I-L and Helix) while evangelizing one of his hobbies (which was editing Wikipedia, a new "wiki"-based encyclopedia). While at RealNetworks, one of Rob's colleagues (Philip Rosedale) moved to San Francisco's Linden Street, and created "Linden Lab", and virtual world known as "Second Life". Rob convinced Philip to start a Seattle office, from which he directed Linden's open source efforts for three years. Then in 2010, the folks at Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia) noticed that Rob had been and editor since the very early days of Wikipedia (since 2001), and hired him to manage employees outside of San Francisco (in faraway places like Australia, The Netherlands, and New York City). They, of course, insisted that he move to San Francisco, which he did. After leaving Wikimedia Foundation, Rob still edited Wikipedia, even while working at Internet Archive. He's here to talk about editing Wikipedia, which he's been doing for over twenty years.
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