Sammy
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSam Walton is a Senior Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation with 11 years’ experience building tools that support Wikipedia’s editor community, currently leading improvements to moderator tools. He combines a strong product and partnership track record—having led the Wikipedia Library, citation initiatives, and publisher collaborations—with hands-on technical contributions to MediaWiki back-end code. Sam’s background in astrophysics (MPhys, First Class; MPhil research) underpins a data-driven, research-oriented approach to product decisions and community engagement. Outside work he co-founded and trustees an animal rescue charity and previously scaled community PR for a major indie game project, showing a rare mix of technical, community, and operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (13)
php10
mediawiki10
wikipedia10
html6
visual-studio-code6
linux6
apache6
laragon6
database6
phpcs6
localhost6
javascript5
css4
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sammy primarily contributed to the MediaWiki back-end, focusing on core functionality and system improvements. Their commits included adding a `data-nosnippet` attribute to the printfooter, adding a dependency to `Resources.php`, adding a verbose option to `refreshLinks`, reverting a change to the difference engine, and updating page preview functionality. The user also added wikidiff2 version information to the special version page.
collaborative-editingmediawikiphpwikiwikipedia
theresnotime/as-a-treat
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
You can have a silly GitHub repo, as a treat.
Contributions:6 reviews, 198 PRs, 236 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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