Video: Wikipedia’s Alolita Sharma
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 25th, 2012Category: Diaspora, Ideas, India, Mobile, San Francisco, silicon valley, Technology, YouTube Videos
Wikipedia. Chances are that when you want to look up you look it up on Wikipedia. Need that information in French, Spanish or Tamil on Wikipedia? That is not a problem, you can read that information in those languages. Need that information served in your latest smart phone? That is not a problem either. There are apps for that.
We spoke with Wikipedia’s Alolita Sharma, Director of Engineering, about her passion for open source and her work at Wikipedia. How to make Wikipedia available in more than 200 languages and on mobile devices are couple of the major projects that keeps Alolita and her team busy. In the interview Alolita talks about her passion for open source, how she came to join Wikipedia and her work at this San Francisco-based company.