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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I am ready to bet that working on 99.9% of those open-source projects won't have the same positive impact than making Wikipedia 1% better.

I would choose Wikipedia.

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Alexander Viken

you are right about the positive impact for sure, but for me it would just bring too much misery working with technology i really don't enjoy. :) If they'd ever need skills I have, I'll be happy to help :)

Maybe it's time for wikipedia to become more technology agnostic. Think more in line of a microservice architecture. At first glance it looks pretty monolithic

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I mean, I guess that the pay is pretty good at Wikipedia, no? So you could work on the impactful things during 3-4 days a week, and on the interesting tech things for the rest of the week.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

And also once you are there you are smart, so will find smart ways to improve their architecture, nothing is fixed in stone.