User:Alangi Derick

Derick Alangi (a.k.a xSavitar)

V. Developer {at} Wikimedia

There Are No Accidents. --Grand Master Oogway

About me

I'm a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement (from) working on MediaWiki & related projects for over 6 years now. Some activities I've engaged in include:

• Wikimedians of Cameroon UG - founding member.
• AWMD Project - technical lead.
• Wikimedia Tool Developers UG - founding member.

My work

Technical contributions to MediaWiki & related projects, Affiliations Committee (AffCom) member since December, 2017, GSoC participant 2016 for Wikimedia (pioneer African to Wikimedia). Also, I've been around mentoring the Google Code-in (GCI) program for Wikimedia since 2015, Outreachy Round 15 (2017), GCI Org Admin all in Wikimedia. Currently, GSoC 2019 + Outreachy R18 Org Admin for Wikimedia.

Contact me

• E-Mail(s):
  • alangi.derickwikipedia.de
  • xsavitar.wikiaol.com
• GitHub: xSavitar
• Freenode IRC handle: xSavitar
• Channels: #wikimedia-dev, #wikimedia-dev-africa

Note: Things should be kept simple so, this is just a summary of my works. Feel free to ping me and lets talk :). You can read about how I started and evolved in the Wikimedia movement via this little story of mine. The story isn't complete, it just mentions remarkable achievements in the Wikimedia movement about me.

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