Karsten Hoffmeyer
Unternehmensinhaber at Professional Wiki
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKarsten Hoffmeyer is a Berlin-based entrepreneur and MediaWiki specialist with over 13 years building hosted, consulting and implementation services for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki deployments. As founder of Professional Wiki and WikiHoster.net, he helps companies turn MediaWiki into practical knowledge-management platforms, combining hosting, customization and long-term maintenance. He contributes to the widely used SemanticMediaWiki project, focusing on German localization, message translations and cleanup of obsolete configurations to improve UX for German-speaking installations. Trained in economics, he brings a pragmatic blend of product-minded business sense and hands-on backend development to documentation-driven, enterprise wiki projects.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom, Economics, Diplom, Economics at Hochschule Reutlingen
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki
Jul 2012 - Jan 2023
🔗 Semantic MediaWiki turns MediaWiki into a knowledge management platform with query and export capabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:57 releases, 16 reviews, 536 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Karsten primarily contributed to the localization of system messages and the German language files. Their contributions focused on modifying and updating language files, specifically focusing on German translations, ensuring the proper display of messages and labels within the Semantic MediaWiki platform. They also addressed minor modifications, including code structure improvements, documentation updates, and the addition of special property aliases within the language files. Additionally, the user removed obsolete configurations parameters.
smwcollaborationmediawiki-extensionknowledge-graphsemantic-web
kghbln/MySystemMessages
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 3 months
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