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{{Quotebox|'''It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it''' (Avot 2:21, attributed to Rabbi Tarfon)}}
Hi!  My name is Asaf Bartov, and I'm a longtime volunteer on Wikipedia and some other Wikimedia projects.  

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I also work for the Wikimedia Foundation, but I use [[User:Asaf (WMF)|my staff account]] for edits made in that official capacity.  Take a look at that page for more about my work at the Foundation.  Before November 2014, I had been using this account to do my official work as staff as well, so many older grant discussions here on Meta will show official edits by me.

==Things I do==
I have been a practicing (volunteer) Wikipedian for many years; my home wiki is the [[:he:עמוד ראשי|Hebrew Wikipedia]], but I make occasional contributions on the [[:w:Main page|English Wikipedia]] as well.  I have a strong background in software engineering, and an abiding interest in literature, education, open access, [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/ linked data], and library science.

Also as an unpaid volunteer, I am a founding editor of [http://benyehuda.org/e_faq.html Project Ben-Yehuda] and a teacher of [[:w:Classical Greek|classical Greek]] and [[:w:Classical Latin|Latin]].  I used to serve on the board of [[:m:Wikimedia Israel|Wikimedia Israel]].

Here are [[c:User:Ijon/Talks|'''Slides and recordings of my talks''']].

On March 4th 2015, I had succumbed to the [[100wikidays|#100wikidays]] challenge, as victim #2.  I completed the challenge in precisely 100 days, er, plus one year. The story is [[User:Ijon/100wikidays|told here, including its even more challenging conclusion]].
===Wikimedia tools I maintain===
(All tools I write are [[w:Free software|free software]] and their source code is [https://github.com/abartov available on GitHub].)
* [https://luthor.toolforge.org/ Luthor] -- a tool for finding '''usage examples''' from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata
* [[/GLAMify|GLAMify]] -- for a given category on Commons, '''suggests images''' for articles based on another Wikipedia's use of those images
** This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the [[User:Ijonbot|Ijonbot]] bot account.
* [[/Wordpile|Wordpile]] -- for a given [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pagepile/ PagePile ID], calculate the '''total word count'''
** This tool interacts with Meta (on my own userspace) using the [[User:Ijonbot|Ijonbot]] bot account.

* [https://github.com/abartov/wimgs wimgs] -- an '''image downloader''' for preparing offline Wikipedia dumps
* [https://github.com/abartov/erex_yomi erex_yomi] -- a script sending a bidiurnal '''e-mail''' with a featured article, featured photo, and today in history, all from the '''Hebrew Wikipedia,''' to a list of subscribers.  Subscribe here: [[:he:ויקיפדיה:ערך יומי בדואל|ערך יומי בדואל]]

====For developers====
* '''[https://rubygems.org/gems/mediawiki_api mediawiki_api]''' -- the current '''Ruby Mediawiki API client''' gem. I am its main maintainer starting 2023.
* [https://github.com/abartov/dhole Dhole] -- a Ruby gem providing '''ActiveRecord mapping''' of main Mediawiki DB entities and relationships
* I've contributed some features and patches to [https://github.com/jpatokal/mediawiki-gateway Mediawiki-Gateway], the older '''Ruby Mediawiki API client''' gem.  I still know it well, and am happy to help if you're trying to do something on Mediawiki in Ruby.