Latest Mediawiki Podcast Episodes
Episode 104: Wolfgang Fahl
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 18, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Wolfgang Fahl is the director and founder of the software training and consulting company BITPlan, and a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) in Germany. Links for some of the topics discussed: BITPlan BITPlan Wik...
Episode 103: BTB Digest 16
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 04, 2022 21:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 30 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from Between the Brackets episodes from last year, including: Igor Absorto talking about open source development, Bill Pirkle explaining the WMF's API Platform initiative; Ziko van Dijk defining "wiki"; Bryan Hilderbrand learning lessons from Dilber...
Episode 102: Jared Olson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 21, 2021 19:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 1 minute Jared Olson is a senior consultant at the military consulting firm DSoft, who is currently working with the United States Space Force. Before that he worked for NASA. Links for some of the topics discussed: DSoft U.S. Space Force Wikipedia article Platform One, Air Fo...
Episode 101: Between the Brackets 2021 Holiday Special
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 07, 2021 18:12 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 38 minutes It's the holiday special! End-of-the-year recap, seasonal public domain music, and we discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Episode 100: Yaron Koren
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 23, 2021 18:40 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 2 hours 2 minutes After 100 episodes, it's finally my turn to be on the show! I (Yaron) am a MediaWiki - and more specifically "Enterprise MediaWiki" - developer, consultant, author, evangelist and of course podcaster. My interviewer, Ike Hecht, is a fellow MediaWiki consultant and develope...
Episode 99: Marshall Miller and Ankan Ghosh Dastider
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 09, 2021 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 13 minutes Marshall Miller is the product manager for the Growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Ankan Ghosh Dastider is a community ambassador with the Growth team for the Bengali-language Wikipedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Growth team Gro...
Episode 98: Jonathan Wilson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 26, 2021 16:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 25 minutes Jonathan Wilson is a British solicitor who runs the wiki Mental Health Law Online. Links for some of the topics discussed: Mental Health Law Online MHLO Cargo tables BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) BAILII Case Law Search MHLO CPD scheme M...
Episode 97: Bryan Hilderbrand
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 12, 2021 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Bryan Hilderbrand runs the wiki consulting company TeGnosis, and is also a project manager for the wiki consulting company WikiWorks. Before becoming a consultant, he was a mechanical engineer (and MediaWiki maintainer) at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Atlas Copco Ma...
Episode 96: Ziko van Dijk
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 28, 2021 18:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 16 minutes Ziko van Dijk is a historian and wiki expert and consultant. From 2011 to 2014 he served as president of the Wikimedia Netherlands chapter, and is the co-founder of the German online children's encyclopedia Klexikon. He is the author of several books, most recently the 202...
Episode 95: BTB Digest 15
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 14, 2021 21:57 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 24 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Robert Heine lays out his data structures, Nischay Nahata discusses his approach to in-wiki emailing, Ilana Fried talks about new features on Wikisource, Peter Meyer wishes for a general U.S. government wiki, Daisy Chen discusses WMF user research, and mo...
Episode 94: Bill Pirkle
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 31, 2021 17:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Bill Pirkle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Platform Engineering Team API Platform initiative "Add an image" feature Apache Kafka Wikipedia article
Episode 93: Igor Absorto
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 17, 2021 14:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 53 minutes Igor Absorto is a freelance developer and consultant, with a focus on MediaWiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Igor Absorto homepage Tor Wikipedia article Aran Dunkley user page on mediawiki.org (includes list of extensions) AjaxComments extension
Episode 92: Daisy Chen
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 03, 2021 15:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 47 minutes Daisy Chen is a senior UX (user experience) researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Daisy Chen user page on mediawiki.org User experience Wikipedia article Wikimedia research/Usability testing
Episode 91: Peter Meyer
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 20, 2021 21:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Peter Meyer is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wikimedia DC chapter. He is also one of the organizers of the upcoming WikiConference North America 2021. Links for some of the topics discussed: "S...
Episode 90: Ilana Fried
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 06, 2021 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Ilana Fried is the product manager for the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was the product manager for the Community Tech team at the WMF. She is also the founder of Gynopedia, a wiki for women's health information around the world. Links for ...
Episode 89: BTB Digest 14
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 22, 2021 23:22 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 21 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Alexander Mashin attempts to add read-access control to MediaWiki, Jeffrey Wang recalls bailing out Wikispaces users, Liam Wyatt talks about the WMF struggling not to make too much money, Lars Dalgaard extols institutional memory, Jon Robson praises getti...
Episode 88: Nischay Nahata
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 08, 2021 14:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Nischay Nahata is the co-founder of Truww, a home interior company based in Bangalore, India. He is also a consultant for my MediaWiki consulting company, WikiWorks. Links for some of the topics discussed: Truww WikiWorks UploadWizard DocBookExport MediaWiki extens...
Episode 87: Robert Heine
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 25, 2021 23:32 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 54 minutes Robert Heine is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based site energypedia, and the consulting company energypedia consult GmbH. Links for some of the topics discussed: energypedia energypedia consult WebMo
Episode 86: Jon Robson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 11, 2021 16:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Jon Robson is a developer in the Readers Web Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Skins Lab Star Citizen Wiki Wikimedia Desktop Improvements project Jon's listing...
Episode 85: Lars Dalgaard
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 27, 2021 17:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Lars Dalgaard is the geocoordinator for the Ballerup Municipality (or Ballerup Kommune), an area near Copenhagen. He maintains the municipality's internal wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Ballerup Municipality Wikipedia article Microsoft Power BI Wikipedia...
Episode 84: Liam Wyatt
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 13, 2021 18:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 39 minutes Liam Wyatt is a community liaison for the new Wikimedia Enterprise project, as well as a program officer for the WikiCite initiative. He was the first-ever Wikipedian in Residence, in 2010 at the British Museum, and organized the first three GLAM-Wiki conferences. He was a...
Episode 83: BTB Digest 13
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 30, 2021 17:47 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 34 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Larry Sanger pitches the encyclosphere, Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner consider oral citations, Kate Chapman talks about decision-making, Ike Hecht praises small consulting companies, Adam Shorland discusses cleaning up ...
Episode 82: Jeffrey Wang
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 16, 2021 10:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Jeffrey Wang is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki hosting site MyWikis. Links for some of the topics discussed: MyWikis "An entrepreneur since age 11, Jeffrey Wang looks to combine business and tech after graduating from UNT TAMS", Denton Record-Chronicle, 2018 M...
Episode 81: Alexander Mashin
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 02, 2021 20:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Alexander Mashin is the administrator of the Russian wiki Traditio. He is also an SAP consultant, and has contributed to a number of MediaWiki extensions, including External Data. Links for some of the topics discussed: Traditio (Традиция) Alexander Mashin user pag...
Episode 80: Adam Shorland
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 16, 2021 19:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Adam Shorland (also known as Addshore) is the Wikidata and Wikibase tech lead at Wikimedia Deutschland. Links for some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki-Docker-Dev Wikidata "Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata" (Wired magazine article, March 2019) Wikida...
Episode 79: Ike Hecht
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 02, 2021 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 29 minutes Ike Hecht is the founder and CTO of the MediaWiki consulting company WikiTeq, as well as the CTO of the MediaWiki consulting company WikiWorks. He has been doing MediaWiki consulting since 2008. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiWorks WikiTeq Project Canas...
Episode 78: Kate Chapman
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 19, 2021 15:28 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 39 minutes Kate Chapman is the Director of Architecture of the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2018. Links for some of the topics discussed: OpenStreetMap Wikipedia article Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Cadasta Foundation Wikimedia Architecture Team "...
Episode 77: BTB Digest 12
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 05, 2021 17:21 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Nikki Nikkhoui plugs a book, Vivian Epiney talks about assigning wiki editing as homework, Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser market BlueSpice, Grant Ingersoll defends Wikimedia Foundation technical strategy, Laurent...
Episode 76: Between the Brackets 2020 Holiday Special
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 22, 2020 16:46 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 27 minutes It's the end of the year! A special episode featuring reminiscences, special guests, and music.
Episode 75: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 08, 2020 18:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Joseph Reagle (left) and Jackie Koerner (right) are the editors of the new book Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. Dr. Reagle is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, as well as the author of the books Good Faith Colla...
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