James Forrester

@jdforrester
New York City
he/him

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Making the world better through technology. Currently at Wikipedia, previously inaugural head of data.gov.uk. I care about education, open data, developer productivity, science communication, technology, government, and our shared humanity.

I'm open to

open source contributions,

beta testing new products,

and activism.

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Jun 2020 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

Jul 2018 - Jun 2020

Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

Senior Product Manager at large, Wikimedia Foundation

May 2015 - Jan 2018

Lead Product Manager, Contribution Products, Wikimedia Foundation

Portfolio

We launched the test version of Wikifunctions.org on the Wikimedia "Beta Cluster".

Released grunt-stylelint v0.16.0, with: • Drop Node 8 support (Ed Sanders) • Require stylelint 13.8.0, up from 13.3.2 (Ed Sanders, James D. Forrester) • Upgrade chalk dependency from ^3.0.0 to ^4.1...

I helped lead the organising team running Wikimania, the annual global Wikimedia conference, in 2005 (Frankfurt), 2006 (Boston), 2007 (Taipei), and 2008 (Alexandria), and have since provided advice...

Mentored through Google Summer of Code for multiple years since 2012, and Google Code-In for multiple years from 2015 until the program ended. Happy to give advice on being a mentor, on setting up ...