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Wikimedia CTO Departs for Open-Source Microblogging Startup

2009-09-29T01:35:59Z

Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the company to work for StatusNet (formerly Laconica) as their chief architect.

StatusNet is the open-source microblogging platform that powers sites such as identi.ca, which impressed us from its inception as a "framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services." Read on for more details on what Vibber will be doing there.

]]> In a post today on the Wikimedia technical blog, Vibber wrote that he had been involved with StatusNet "as a user, bug reporter, and patch submitter since 2008," and that his being hired coincided with StatusNet's ramping up for "a 1.0 release, hosted services, and support offerings."

Vibber hard at work at the Wikimedia Foundation office.

And according to this StatusNet announcement, Vibber's job description will revolve around "architecture and development of the core StatusNet microblogging software, as well as ancillary services to support the status.net platform." And in addition to launching a first release and public signup over the next few months, it is hoped by StatusNet leadership that Vibber's "natural skills as a mentor and leader will help build our Open Source developer and user community."

Although Vibber's new duties will commence on October 12, he will continue to be involved in Wikimedia development and will remain in the Wikimedia office until the end of 2009 "to make sure all our tech staff has a chance to pick my brain as we smooth out the code review processes and make sure things are as well documented as I like to think they are," he wrote.

In an interesting study in open-source, free-as-in-freedom/free-as-in-beer cross-pollination, StatusNet founder Evan Prodromou is also known for his work in the wiki community, launching Wikitravel and helping with MediaWiki development.

Comment from Wilburn Brooks on 2011-02-16

2011-02-16T15:41:24Z

This is what I love about StatusNet. Whenever there’s a feature that’s added I can choose to add it to my own home social network or disable it if I find it too bothersome for the users on it. The work that Status.net and its allies are doing to federate communications is as significant as the federation that occurred when email providers allowed users to send emails between providers, rather than merely within AOL, CompuServe, etc.
Status.net is not merely producing another microblogging platform. They are re-inventing communication.
Kudos to Brion Vibber!

Comment from Sasa Kuljanin on 2011-01-20

2011-01-20T16:03:54Z

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Comment from Hhuio Huiop on 2011-01-11

2011-01-11T21:49:53Z

In an interesting study in open-source, cross-pollination free-as-in-freedom/free-as-in-beer, StatusNet founder Evan Prodromou is also known for his work in the community wiki, the launch of Wikitravel and contributing MediaWiki development snow sleds kids

Comment from Milia treatment on 2010-11-27

2010-11-27T10:04:38Z

Wow, only 7 engineers do all this incredible work? Kudos to you people!!!

Comment from readers bate on 2010-11-26

2010-11-27T05:32:20Z

have faith that pneumonia symptoms Wikipedia will continue to thrive as they did so in past

Comment from drug roar – blog about drugs on 2010-11-13

2010-11-14T04:26:10Z

Its amazing that 7 engineers managing 7 billion page views per month.I find it very informative as such a non profit organization lending very lucretive service for the unanswered questions.Hats off..

Comment from the music man on 2010-10-29

2010-10-30T06:50:46Z

I have every confidence that pneumonia symptoms Wikipedia and friends will continue to thrive!

Comment from anthonys peso on 2010-10-15

2010-10-15T08:12:57Z

Hats off to Vibber and Wikipedia - How to get 7 billion page views per month by managing 7 engineers?

Comment from acoustic guitar lessons on 2010-10-02

2010-10-03T05:17:04Z

He described how his team of 7 engineers manages the Wikipedia site that gets on an average of 7 billion page views per month. The highlights from the talk are listed below that included the architecture of the site infrastructure to scale up to the traffic that is received. They are ranked amongst the Top 10 sites in terms of traffic.

Comment from yellowleague.com on 2010-10-02

2010-10-02T08:01:34Z

I don't think wikipedia get nearly enough credit as it deserves. Most people I've come in contact with feel the information it gives isn't legitimate enough because "anyone can change it". Personally, I enjoy using it to get quick answers for random questions I have.

Comment from Suchi on 2010-07-08

2010-07-08T12:28:25Z

that was one of the most interesting ways to spam a blog...a somewhat grammatically incorrect statement that is somewhat relevant about the article, then slipping in your cheesy SEO link to your crappy site.
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Comment from Shehanshah on 2010-07-08

2010-07-08T12:20:21Z

Everyone had so much fun with the web browser faceoff though. So it’s time to take two of the web’s most popular apps, put them in the ring, and see which one is the people’s choice. Got a great tech team here at Wikimedia, and we’ve done so much with so little over the last few years. A lot of really good work is going on now, modernizing both our infrastructure and our user interface… I have every confidence that pneumonia symptoms Wikipedia and friends will continue to thrive! The episode after that, we’ll have on Brion Vibber, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Comment from seogene on 2010-01-26

2010-01-26T14:56:39Z

Alka Gupta wrote in comments to Planet MySQL: I recently attended an interesting talk by Brion Vibber, CTO of WikiMedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs the infrastructure for Wikipedia. He described how his team of 7 engineers manages the Wikipedia site that gets on an average of 7 billion page views per month. The highlights from the talk are listed below that included the architecture of the site infrastructure to scale up to the traffic that is received. They are ranked amongst the Top 10 sites in terms of traffic.

Comment from bob on 2009-09-29

2009-09-29T20:30:00Z

Dear JavieriY,
that was one of the most interesting ways to spam a blog...a somewhat grammatically incorrect statement that is somewhat relevant about the article, then slipping in your cheesy SEO link to your crappy site.

Well done sir

Comment from JavieriY on 2009-09-28

2009-09-29T06:10:45Z

Everyone had so much fun with the web browser faceoff though. So it’s time to take two of the web’s most popular apps, put them in the ring, and see which one is the people’s choice. Got a great tech team here at Wikimedia, and we’ve done so much with so little over the last few years. A lot of really good work is going on now, modernizing both our infrastructure and our user interface… I have every confidence that Wikipedia and friends will continue to thrive! The episode after that, we’ll have on Brion Vibber, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia is probably the most popular Free Network Service on the Web, and we’ll talk about Brion’s dedication to using 100% Free Software for this massive Web site. Dont let payday loans be the hindrance to feel the madness of this CTo Wikimedia.