Matthew Flaschen

Philadelphia, PA

Age: 25

I'm a software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm on the Editor Engagement Experiments team.

In 2010, I earned my BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, where I was a research assistant with the Electronic Learning Communities lab.

Feel free to try out ProveIt, a tool we developed at ELC for Wikipedia reference management.

You can contact me here.

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How can I develop for Android in Emacs?

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Is getting a “fake” tattoo a violation of halacha?

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Change “base repo” for GitHub pull requests

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8 votes

Legal page says user content is under cc-by-sa-3.0, but other pages say cc-by-sa-2.5

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No redirect migration links broken for answers

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How do I install a PHP CLI with a usable interactive prompt on Debian Wheezy?

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How exactly does the JavaScript expression [1 [{}]] parse?

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Can I get the observable array I'm foreach-ing over inside?

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5 votes

How do I make git automatically open the mergetool if there is a merge conflict?

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Are JavaScript equality operators for DOM elements cross-browser?

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