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	~~== Biography ==~~		Heinrich Magnus Manske, better known by his middle and last names Magnus Manske, is a German biochemist and software developer. He researches on malaria, parasites, and microbes and participates in the development of the MediaWiki system.<ref>{{#cite:Q985}}</ref>

	~~''from Wikipedia (CC BY~~-~~SA 4~~.~~0):''~~		In 2002, he wrote one of the first versions of the software that later became [[HowItWorks:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]], as a summer project while he was studying biochemistry at the [https://uni-koeln.de/en/ University of Cologne].

	~~Heinrich Magnus Manske is~~ a ~~German biochemist who is~~ a ~~researcher on malaria~~. ~~He is a senior staff scientist~~ at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in ~~Cambridge~~, ~~UK and~~ a software developer of ~~one~~ of ~~the first versions of the~~ MediaWiki ~~software~~, ~~which powers~~ Wikipedia and ~~a number of other~~ wiki~~-based websites~~.		In 2006, he was awarded a doctor of philosophy in biochemistry<ref>{{#cite:Q988}}</ref>. His thesis, titled [https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/1907/ GENtle, a free multi-purpose molecular biology tool], was essentially a presentation of the GENtle software he developed for bioinformatic research<ref>{{#cite:Q985}}</ref>.

			In 2007, Magnus started working at the [https://www.sanger.ac.uk/ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute]. He was part of the malaria team until he transferred to the parasites and microbes team in 2017<ref>{{#cite:Q985}}</ref>.

			In 2025, Magnus became a software developer at the [https://www.tib.eu/de/ Leibniz center of information for technology and natural science], [https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/ University of Hannover]<ref>{{#cite:Q985}}</ref>.

			Today, besides being a productive biochemistry researcher, Magnus continues to actively participate in MediaWiki development, writing, in his own words, "an unreasonable number of Wikipedia and Wikidata data tools"<ref>{{#cite:Q985}}</ref>. His most famous creations include the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite Cite extension].

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	Heinrich Magnus Manske is a German biochemist who is a researcher on malaria. He is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based websites.		Heinrich Magnus Manske is a German biochemist who is a researcher on malaria. He is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based websites.


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== Biography ==

''from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0):''

Heinrich Magnus Manske is a German biochemist who is a researcher on malaria. He is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based websites.