Latest Mediawiki Podcast Episodes
Episode 133: Bryan Hilderbrand
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 28, 2023 19:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 42 minutes WikiWorks/TeGnosis consultant Bryan Hilderbrand returns to the podcast, to talk about the upcoming Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (April 19-21 in Austin, Texas), and various other topics. Links for some of the topics discussed: EMWCon Spring 2023 ChatGPT Wikipedia ar...
Episode 132: Anton Krom
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 14, 2023 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Anton Krom is a longtime MediaWiki administrator and consultant. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiTeq Wikiask Canasta Anton on Upwork
Episode 131: Waldir Pimenta
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 31, 2023 17:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 44 minutes Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Portugal Timeline of founding ...
Episode 130: Ariel Gutman
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 17, 2023 15:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, ...
Episode 129: Simon Stier
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 03, 2023 18:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform. Links for some of the topics discussed: Fraunhofer Institut...
Episode 128: BTB Digest 20
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 20, 2022 22:29 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 22 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong desc...
Episode 127: 2022 Holiday Special
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 06, 2022 22:41 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 48 minutes It's the 2022 holiday special! Featuring an all-star guest panel (Daisy Chen, Richard Knipel, Trevor Parscal and Denny Vrandečić) weighing in on the current Wikimedia sound logo competition. Hear their informed opinions! And if that wasn't enough, you can then listen to Lex Sulze...
Episode 126: Nathan Brewer
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 22, 2022 20:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 36 minutes Nathan Brewer is the archival and digital content manager at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) History Center. He manages the IEEE's Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: IEEE Wikipedia article Engineerin...
Episode 125: Eric Gardner
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 08, 2022 18:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 8 minutes Eric Gardner is a senior software engineer on the Design Systems team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been heavily involved in the introduction of the Vue.js library into MediaWiki, and the creation of the related Codex library. Links for some of the topics discussed:...
Episode 125: William Beutler
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 25, 2022 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 24 minutes William Beutler is the founder and president of the creative agency Beutler Ink, which, among other services, assists clients with their presence on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Previously, he ran the longtime blog The Wikipedian, and he has co-hosted several film podcasts. Li...
Episode 124: William Beutler
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 25, 2022 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 24 minutes William Beutler is the founder and president of the creative agency Beutler Ink, which, among other services, assists clients with their presence on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Previously, he ran the longtime blog The Wikipedian, and he has co-hosted several film podcasts. Li...
Episode 123: Jacqueline Wong
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 11, 2022 17:19 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 55 minutes Jacqueline Wong is a software developer who, in her free time, helps to host and maintain various video game-related wikis. Links for some of the topics discussed: Another Eden Wiki Another Eden Wiki:Discussion on Potential Fork "The online ad market is in decline and it’...
Episode 122: Marc Laporte
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 27, 2022 16:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Marc Laporte is a longtime administrator of the Tiki application, the open source project also known as TikiWiki and Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. He also runs the related WikiSuite project, and the consulting company EvoluData. Links for some of the topics discussed: Marc La...
Episode 121: BTB Digest 19
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 13, 2022 15:55 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Matthew Westerby explains the challenges of storing dates, Lionel Scheepmans extols Wikiversity, Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman ponder the future of Wikipedia in a mechanized world, Brian Wolff shares his thoughts on Asana, ...
Episode 120: Cindy Cicalese
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 30, 2022 14:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Cindy Cicalese is a principal engineer for the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the general chair for the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki Conference, to be held October 26-28 in Breda, the Netherlands. She was the first-ever guest on this progra...
Episode 119: Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 16, 2022 16:18 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 53 minutes Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson (left to right) are the founder and lead developer, respectively, of the site Protoball, a wiki about the prehistory and early history of baseball. Links for some of the topics discussed: Protoball "Doubleday myth" Wikipedia article List of...
Episode 118: Jake Orlowitz
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 02, 2022 19:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 22 minutes Jake Orlowitz is the lead of the management consulting company WikiBlueprint. Before founding WikiBlueprint, he worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where his projects included The Wikipedia Library and The Wikipedia Adventure. He has been open about his former struggles wi...
Episode 117: Brian Wolff
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 19, 2022 18:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Brian Wolff is back on the program - he was a longtime member of the Security team at the Wikimedia Foundation, then worked at Asana, and is now temporarily unemployed. He is still thankfully involved with MediaWiki as a volunteer developer. Links for some of the topics d...
Episode 116: Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 05, 2022 17:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 14 minutes Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman are both developers in the Abstract Wikipedia group at the Wikimedia Foundation; Adam is the director of engineering, while Julia is a senior software engineer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Abstract Wikipedia page on Meta-Wiki ...
Episode 115: BTB Digest 18
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 21, 2022 18:15 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 30 minutes It's another BTB Digest episode! Mike Cariaso explains why you should use SQLite, Tyler Cipriani talks about teaching deployment to volunteers, Dror Snir-Haim compares translation options, Alex Hollender defends sticky headers, Kunal Mehta criticizes Bitcoin miners, and more!
Episode 114: Lionel Scheepmans
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 07, 2022 16:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 38 minutes Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Links for some of the topics discu...
Episode 113: Matthew Westerby
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 24, 2022 20:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the ...
Episode 112: Kunal Mehta
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 10, 2022 16:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 57 minutes Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.) Links for some of the topics d...
Episode 111: Alex Hollender
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 26, 2022 17:20 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 2 hours 18 minutes Alex Hollender is a product designer on the Reading Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been with the WMF since 2018. Links for some of the topics discussed: Create Build Destroy (fashion label) AltSchool Wikipedia article VideoWiki (now-archived MediaWiki...
Episode 110: Dror Snir-Haim
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 12, 2022 18:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 20 minutes Dror Snir-Haim, or Dror Snir, also known as FreedomFighterSparrow, is the main developer of Kol-Zchut, a wiki (run by a nonprofit organization of the same name) dedicated to enumerating the rights and entitlements of citizens of Israel. Links for some of the topics discu...
Episode 109: BTB Digest 17
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 29, 2022 20:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 29 minutes Clips from five recent episodes: Marshall Miller talks about gamification of Wikipedia editing, Jared Olson describes the U.S. Space Force wiki, Wolfgang Fahl mentions the three Cambridges, Florian Schmidt praises weekly software upgrades, Jay Prakash wishes for more hackathons, a...
Episode 108: Tyler Cipriani
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 15, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 13 minutes Tyler Cipriani is the engineering manager for release engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked at the WMF since 2015. Links for some of the topics discussed: Public Domain Day 2022 "How we deploy code" (2021 blog post by Tyler) Trainsperiment week "...
Episode 107: Mike Cariaso
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 01, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 33 minutes Mike Cariaso is back, as the first-ever repeat guest on Between the Brackets! Mike is the co-creator (with Greg Lennon) of the wiki SNPedia, and the associated software Promethease, which matches an individual human genome sequence against the data in SNPedia. In 2019, Mik...
Episode 106: Jay Prakash
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 15, 2022 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 24 minutes Jay Prakash is the co-founder of both the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group and Indic-TechCom. At the 2021 Wikimania, he was named one of five Wikimedians of the Year, in the category of "Tech Innovator". He is also a college student and part-time MediaWiki consultant....
Episode 105: Florian Schmidt
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 01, 2022 17:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 53 minutes Florian Schmidt has been a volunteer MediaWiki developer since 2014, and has run the wiki Android Wiki since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: MobileFrontend extension Android Wiki English-language version Android operating system Wikipedia article Ac...
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