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It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it
(Avot 2:21, attributed to Rabbi Tarfon)
Hi! My name is Asaf Bartov, and I'm a longtime volunteer on Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia projects.
This user participated in the
#100wikidays challenge
This user
teaches OpenRefine
This user supports
Cuteness
in the Wikimedia movement
User language
en
-5
This user has
professional
knowledge of
he
-N
משתמש זה דובר
עברית
שפת אם
la
-3
Hic usor
probe
ac
Latine
conferre potest.
grc
-3
Ὅδε ὁ χρώμενος
ἀνωτέραν
γνῶσιν τῆς
ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς
ἔχει.
uk
-2
Цей користувач володіє
українською мовою
на
середньому рівні
de
-1
Dieser Benutzer beherrscht
auf
grundlegendem
Niveau.
es
-1
Este usuario tiene un conocimiento
básico
del
fr
-1
Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances
de base
en
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I also work for the Wikimedia Foundation, but I use
my staff account
for edits made in that official capacity. Take a look at that page for more about my work at the Foundation. Before November 2014, I had been using this account to do my official work as staff as well, so many older grant discussions here on Meta will show official edits by me.
Things I do
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I have been a practicing (volunteer) Wikipedian for many years; my home wiki is the
Hebrew Wikipedia
, but I make occasional contributions on the
English Wikipedia
as well. I have a strong background in software engineering, and an abiding interest in literature, education, open access,
linked data
, and library science.
Also as an unpaid volunteer, I am a founding editor of
Project Ben-Yehuda
and a teacher of
classical Greek
and
Latin
. I used to serve on the board of
Wikimedia Israel
Here are
Slides and recordings of my talks
On March 4th 2015, I had succumbed to the
#100wikidays
challenge, as victim #2. I completed the challenge in precisely 100 days, er, plus one year. The story is
told here, including its even more challenging conclusion
Wikimedia tools I maintain
edit
(All tools I write are
free software
and their source code is
available on GitHub
.)
Luthor
-- a tool for finding
usage examples
from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata
GLAMify
-- for a given category on Commons,
suggests images
for articles based on another Wikipedia's use of those images
This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the
Ijonbot
bot account.
Wordpile
-- for a given
PagePile ID
, calculate the
total word count
This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the
Ijonbot
bot account.
wimgs
-- an
image downloader
for preparing offline Wikipedia dumps
erex_yomi
-- a script sending a bidiurnal
e-mail
with a featured article, featured photo, and today in history, all from the
Hebrew Wikipedia,
to a list of subscribers. Subscribe here:
ערך יומי בדואל
For developers
edit
mediawiki_api
-- the current
Ruby Mediawiki API client
gem. I am its main maintainer starting 2023.
Dhole
-- a Ruby gem providing
ActiveRecord mapping
of main Mediawiki DB entities and relationships
I've contributed some features and patches to
Mediawiki-Gateway
, the older
Ruby Mediawiki API client
gem. I still know it well, and am happy to help if you're trying to do something on Mediawiki in Ruby.
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