# Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-12-31/Interview>

- Host: [en.wikipedia.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/en.wikipedia.org/)
- Saved: January 2, 2013 (2013-01-02T16:54:21Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17a6e86e77b1/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/17a6e86e77b1.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early development of the MediaWiki software and is now the lead software architect for the foundation's mobile development team.

## Facts

- Kind: [Article](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/article/)
- From Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-12-31/Interview

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-12-31/Interview