Asaf Bartov
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities at Project Ben-Yehuda
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAsaf Bartov is a program leader who transitioned from 16 years as a software architect and team leader to driving Wikimedia's expansion in the developing world as Senior Program Officer for Emerging Wikimedia Communities. He combines technical fluency with facilitation, public speaking, and organizational development to build partnerships with NGOs, governments, and grassroots editors that increase readership and editor participation. A founder and long-time Wikipedian, he bridges “geekspeak” and human language to make complex technical and cultural projects practical and inclusive. His background spans library linked-data work, consultancy on large multi-platform systems, and an uncommon pairing of classical studies and hacker ethos that informs his advocacy for open knowledge.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Classics, MA, Classics at Tel Aviv UniversityIASA
English, Hebrew, Greek, Latin
Stackoverflow
2,740reputation
448kreached
7answers
7questions
debugging
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
gist10
couchdb10
markup-language10
wikidata10
text-editing10
stackedit10
zendesk10
php10
content-management10
origami10
cms10
ruby10
haskell10
nightwatch10
data-wrangling10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
abartov/bybeconv
Dec 2011 - Feb 2023
Project Ben-Yehuda's content management system.
Contributions:134 reviews, 2916 commits, 160 PRs in 11 years 4 months
cmsmanagement-systembenphpcontent-management
abartov/wimgs
Jul 2013 - Oct 2020
Wiki images and thumbnails bulk downloader
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 years 4 months
thumbnailswikibulk-downloaderdownloader
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