Taavi Väänänen

Under construction!

• Phone: iPhone 14 Pro
• GPS: Garmin eTrex 20

• OS: Debian (stable for servers, testing for laptops)
• Window manager: sway
• Web browser: Firefox ESR from Debian
• Search engine: DuckDuckGo
• IDE/text editor: JetBrains IDEs, VSCodium
• Email client: Thunderbird (desktop), Mail.app (mobile)
• Password manager: 1Password, pass(1)
• RSS reader: Miniflux
• Issue/TODO tracker: Phorge
• Mastodon client: Mastodon web (desktop), Ivory (mobile)
• IRC client: The Lounge, senpai

See also: dotfiles, Debian packages.

This is a list of talks and similar I've given at various events, podcast appearances, and similar things.

• apt install mediawiki @ Wikimedia Hackathon 2025
  (slides)

• Managing Wikimedia servers with Puppet @ Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
  (slides)
• Between the Brackets: A MediaWiki podcast

• OpenTofu on Cloud VPS @ Wikimedia Foundation Developer Experience team offsite
  (slides)
• Co-creating platforms and products: how the Wikimedia Cloud Services team works with the larger Wikimedia technical community to build and maintain Cloud VPS, Toolforge, Quarry, PAWS, and more @ Wikimania 2023
  (recording, slides)

"knows much of the Deep Arts" — Lucas

"good smart Finnish nerd" :3 — Sammy

This is a collection of some of my favourite photos that I've uploaded to Commons.

Hi! 👋 I'm Taavi (he/him or they/them). I'm a nerd.

Currently I'm studying at Tampere University.

On the side I help run a private cloud platform that supports various processes in the Wikimedia movement. In the past I modernised most of jQuery's infrastructure.

In my free time I'm also involved in some free software projects. In addition those already mentioned, these include Wikimedia, where I've had commit ("+2") access to MediaWiki core since 2021 and in August 2022 was awarded the Wikimedia Tech Contributor of the Year award and Debian, where I am a full Debian Developer. Most recently I've gotten involved with running the Libera Chat IRC network.

Some of my miscellaneous personal projects are hosted on my personal git server.

I like trains (and other modes of transport).

These are also things that I've been involved with but could not fit into the text above:

• Wikis World Mastodon server
• webring.wiki
• Why is the beta cluster broken?

• I am Q118521440 on Wikidata
• I exist on people.wikimedia.org, people.debian.org
• Read the white paper (Canadian version)