User:cscott
My name is C. Scott Ananian, and I began editing articles on Wikipedia in 2005.
Bio
[edit]C. Scott Ananian is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, working on the Parsoid project (and formerly, OCG). He also dabbles with LanguageConverter, Real-time collaboration in VE, and with OOjs.
Previously, Dr. Ananian was a jack-of-all-trades for the One Laptop per Child Foundation. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT, and before joining OLPC was a local activist and organizer for copyright issues. He organized Free Sklyarov Boston in July 2001, and in 2004 and 2005 was the lead programmer for the Election Incident Reporting System, which collected real-time data on elections across the US. He's a kernel hacker, advocate of voter verifiable elections, part-time khipu researcher, and aperiodic tesselation aficionado. Now he tries to build robust and reliable systems to allow kids to discover, share, and learn.
Wikimedia Talks and Presentations
[edit]See also /Ideas, a sandbox for future talks which often links to detailed phab tickets.
| 2025-10-17/
2025-10-19 |
Parsoid Read Views is coming! | Wikiconference North America 2025 (full version: slides, speaker notes; lightning talk: slides; session) |
| 2025-08-08 | Imagining a future for Scribunto (writeup) | Wikimania 2025 (video, slides, session) |
| 2025-08-08 | Parsoid Read Views is coming to all wikis and Wikipedia is next! | Wikimania 2025 (video, slides, session) |
| 2025-08-07 | Unpopular Opinions: Bold Lightning Talks to Shake Up Wikimedia | Wikimania 2025 (video, slides, session) |
| 2025-08-06 | A dozen visions for wikitext! (writeup) | Wikimania 2025 (video, slides, session) |
| 2025-06-26 | Content Transformers FY2025 Demo | WE5/WE6 Wrapup (video) |
| 2025-02-25 | Keeping our Content Up-to-Date (Even When We Don't Know When It's Ready): A ParserCache and WikiFunctions story | Data Platform Engineering Deep Dives Feb 2025 (video, slides) |
| 2024-12-13 | (Almost) 10 years of Wikitext wat!? | MediaWiki Engineering Offsite Dec 2024 (slides) |
| 2024-09-26 | Parsoid ♥ Wikivoyage | MediaWiki Engineering Sept 2024 (slides) |
| 2024-08-09 | State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia | Wikimania 2024 (video, slides, session) |
| 2024-08-09 | Parsoid is coming! How do I keep up? [[Wikitext]] in 2024 | Wikimania 2024 (video, slides, session) |
| 2024-05-31 | What is Language Converter? | Wikimedia Language Engineering Community Meeting May 2024 (slides, gdocs) |
| 2024-04-17 | Don't be a [[Square]]! Keeping up with wikitext changes | MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2024 (video, slides, gdocs) |
| 2023-12-12 | Updates from the Wikitext Parsing World (2023) | SMWCon 2023 (video, slides) |
| 2023-11 - 2024-02 | Parsoid Read Views update | MediaWiki Engineering (2023-11-15) / Product and Technology (2023-12) / All-Staff (2024-02) |
| 2022-10-26 | Updates from the Wikitext Parsing World (2022) | SMWCon 2022 (video, slides) |
| 2021-12-09 | Updates from the Wikitext Parsing World (2021) | SMWCon 2021 (with Subbu Sastry) (video, |