Episode 106: Jay Prakash

<p><img style="float: right; padding: 5px;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/115190/Jay-Prakash-BTB.png" alt="Jay Prakash" width="140" height="140" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: #34495e;">🕑 1 hour 24 minutes</span></p> <p>Jay Prakash is the co-founder of both the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group and Indic-TechCom. At the 2021 Wikimania, he was named one of five Wikimedians of the Year, in the category of "Tech Innovator". He is also a college student and part-time MediaWiki consultant.</p> <p>Links for some of the topics discussed:</p> <ul> <li><a href= "https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/15/meet-jay-prakash-wikimedian-of-the-year-2021-tech-innovator-winner/"> "Meet Jay Prakash: Wikimedian of the Year 2021 Tech Innovator winner"</a> (2012 Wikimedia Foundation blog post)</li> <li><a href= "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#Code_samples_in_JavaScript_and_PHP_to_demonstrate_the_use_of_MediaWiki_Action_API_modules"> Jay's 2019 Google Summer of Code project</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CountDownClock">CountDownClock</a> MediaWiki extension</li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group"> Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group</a></li> <li><a href= "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom">Indic-TechCom</a></li> <li><a href="https://indic-ocr.toolforge.org/">Indic-OCR</a></li> <li><a href= "https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SJ7NJLVYT6RH36V4STCGDUAM54BCDIIR/"> "Uplifting the multimedia stack"</a> (wikitech-l mailing list thread)</li> </ul>