BPirkle (WMF)
Joined 2 July 2018
Bill Pirkle
Staff Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
About me
I began working for the Wikimedia Foundation in July 2018
My work
I am Tech Lead of the API Platform Team under the MediaWiki Engineering Group
Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
Contact me
- E-mail: bpirkle
wikimedia.org
- Continuity page, in case I am unavailable
- Here is a User Guide to me
- Here is a bit about my current mwcli local development setup
- Here is a bit about my previous mediawiki-docker-dev local development setup
- Here is a bit about my previous Vagrant-based local development setup
- Here are some MediaWiki framework thoughts
- Takeaways from API Specifications Conference 2021
- Takeaways from Software Architecture Gathering Conference 2021
- Steps to Design an API
- Some API Platform links and thoughts
- Code Mob recordings from 2023