Latest Wikidata Podcast Episodes
Episode 162: Viktor Schelling
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 07, 2024 15:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Viktor Schelling is the Senior Principal MediaWiki Developer at Pegasystems. Links for some of the topics discussed: Pegasystems Wikipedia article Wikibase Solutions FlexForm MediaWiki extension Open CSP
Episode 161: Moritz Schubotz
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 25, 2024 14:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Dr. Moritz Schubotz (developer username Physikerwelt) is head of research at the mathematics department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. He is the author or co-author of the MediaWiki extensions Math and MathSearch, and the Mathoid applic...
Episode 160: Megan Cutrofello
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 09, 2024 19:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 43 minutes Megan Cutrofello, better known as River, returns to the podcast. She is a freelance wiki developer who has worked with Gamepedia, Fandom and wiki.gg, among others. Links for some of the topics discussed: wiki.gg "What's going on with gaming communities moving from Fan...
Episode 159: BTB Digest 25
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 26, 2024 15:36 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 21 minutes It's a BTB Digest episode! Hear clips from five recent episodes. Steve Schneider describes his remarkably AI-centered approach to teaching, Birgit Müller boasts about her team's success in improving code review, Srishti Sethi considers the usefulness of developer outreach programs...
Episode 158: Taavi Väänänen
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 12, 2024 15:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 38 minutes Taavi Väänänen is a site reliability engineer in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2022, when he was still just a volunteer contributor, he was named Tech Contributor of the Year by Jimmy Wales. Links for some of the topics discussed: Taavi Väänä...
Episode 157: Jeffrey Wang
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 27, 2024 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Jeffrey Wang returns to the podcast to talk about his new-ish job at Microsoft, his much older job as head of MyWikis, the upcoming MediaWiki conference, AI, and various other things. Some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2024 MyWikis...
Episode 156: Guillaume Coulombe
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - February 13, 2024 18:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Guillaume Coulombe is the head of Procédurable, a process consulting company with a focus on open source software and open data, and an even more specific focus on MediaWiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Procédurable Arbre-Évolution Coop "Understanding wik...
Episode 155: Alan Ang and Kris Litson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 30, 2024 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 13 minutes Alan Ang and Kris Litson (pictured, left to right) are both employees at Wikimedia Deutschland, the German Wikimedia chapter: Alan is a partner manager for Wikidata, while Kris is head of software communications. The two are both involved in evangelism for both Wikidata and...
Episode 154: Srishti Sethi
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 16, 2024 17:34 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 52 minutes Srishti Sethi (also known as SrishAkaTux) is a developer advocate in the Language Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Prior to the mass reorganization at the Wikimedia Foundation in summer 2023, she was part of the Technical Engagement team. Links for some of the topics discussed:...
Episode 153: BTB Digest 24
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - January 02, 2024 17:35 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 23 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Highlights from five recent episodes. Bryan Hilderbrand considers the future of scientific publishing, Jan Ainali thinks about solutions for Wikidata's messiness, Tricia Burmeister recounts the challenges of changing a wiki's front page, Ilias Sarantopoulo...
Episode 152: Year in review with William Beutler
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 19, 2023 16:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 8 minutes It's not quite a holiday episode, but it is an end-of-year wrapup, featuring William Beutler, strategic marketing consultant and author of the blog The Wikipedian, which went on hiatus in 2020 and is now thankfully back. William shares some of the stories that he's working o...
Episode 151: Birgit Müller
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - December 06, 2023 20:17 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 55 minutes Birgit Müller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was Director of Technical Engagement. From 2014 to 2019, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland. Links for some of the topics discussed: Birgit's user pag...
Episode 150: Steve Schneider
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 21, 2023 16:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 52 minutes Steve Schneider is a professor of information design at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly). He currently teaches a class, Digital Media and Information in Society, whose coursework is managed via Wikiversity and Wiki Edu, and also involves th...
Episode 149: Alissa Stern
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - November 08, 2023 01:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Alissa Stern founded the organization BASAbali (later renamed BASAibu) in 2011, and the BASAbali Wiki in 2014. The BASAbali Wiki was originally intended to serve only as a dictionary for the Balinese language, but it has since grown to become a general communication hub for ...
Episode 148: Ilias Sarantopoulos
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - October 24, 2023 16:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 4 minutes Ilias Sarantopoulos is a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been at the WMF since 2022. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Machine Learning team WMF machine learning modernization plan WMF machine...
Episode 147: Tricia Burmeister
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 26, 2023 18:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Tricia Burmeister is a senior technical writer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and part of the (relatively new) WMF Technical Documentation Team. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team Wikitech wiki main page restructuring diff ...
Episode 146: BTB Digest 23
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - September 13, 2023 16:56 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 21 minutes Clips from five recent episodes! Danielle Batson thinks about the future of genealogy, Ike Hecht considers the effect of AI on software, Tom Harriman describes the contents of Nuclepedia, Rita Ho praises the Content Translation tool, Allan Lim talks about becoming an amateur arch...
Episode 145: Jan Ainali
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 29, 2023 15:25 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 60 minutes Jan Ainali is a codebase steward for the Foundation for Public Code. On the side, he's an all-around Wikimedia editor, enthusiast and evangelist, with a special focus on Wikidata. He co-founded the Wikimedia Sverige chapter, co-created the Wikidata-based online resource Govdirect...
Episode 144: Bryan Hilderband
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 15, 2023 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 16 minutes Bryan Hilderbrand, MediaWiki consultant of TeGnosis and WikiWorks fame, is back on the podcast to talk about weighty matters like the future of science, the nature of truth, and whether periods need one or two spaces after them. Links for some of the topics discussed: ...
Episode 144: Bryan Hilderbrand
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 15, 2023 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 16 minutes Bryan Hilderbrand, MediaWiki consultant of TeGnosis and WikiWorks fame, is back on the podcast to talk about weighty matters like the future of science, the nature of truth, and whether periods need one or two spaces after them. Links for some of the topics discussed: ...
Episode 143: Allan Lim
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - August 01, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 14 minutes Allan Lim is the founder of the wiki Beyond Angkor, which maps the locations of temples and other sites from the Khmer Empire, in modern-day Cambodia and surrounding countries. Links for some of the topics discussed: Beyond Angkor Beyond Angkor Facebook group Khmer ...
Episode 142: Rita Ho
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 18, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Rita Ho is the senior groups design manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. She was formerly a member of the Growth Team, and is still actively involved in growth-related projects. Links for some of the topics discussed: Growth team - feature summary (slideshow) Graph ...
Episode 141: Tom Harriman
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - July 04, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Tom Harriman is a senior learning project manager at the technical training center of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He runs the NRC's wiki, Nuclepedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wikipedia article "Nuclepedia:...
Episode 140: BTB Digest 22
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 21, 2023 00:14 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑23 minutes It's a BTB Digest episode! Anton Krom thinks back to abandoning SharePoint in favor of MediaWiki, Bryan Hilderbrand finds a role for wikis in a world of AI, Ed Sanders reminisces on the early days of VisualEditor, Sanjay Thiyagarajan explains going without sleep at hackathons, and...
Episode 139: Ike Hecht
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - June 06, 2023 18:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 15 minutes Ike Hecht, founder of the consulting company WikiTeq, is back to talk about weighty matters like AI, religion, and the singularity. Plus some pre-singularity thoughts on project management software and marketing. Links for some of the topics discussed: ELIZA Wikipedia a...
Episode 138: Danielle Batson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - May 23, 2023 17:02 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 58 minutes Danielle Batson is the wiki community manager for the non-profit organization FamilySearch, which is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Links for some of the topics discussed: FamilySearch FamilySearch Wikipedia article FamilySearch Research Wiki Fa...
Episode 137: Sam Wilson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 25, 2023 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 18 minutes Sam Wilson is a senior software engineer in the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is his second time on Between the Brackets. Links for some of the topics discussed: Community Tech team Phonos MediaWiki extension WikiEditor Realtime Preview feat...
Episode 136: Sanjay Thiyagarajan
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - April 11, 2023 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 2 minutes Sanjay Thiyagarajan (username: Techwizzie) is a full-stack developer at JP Morgan Chase who has also done a significant amount of MediaWiki extension development as an intern and consultant at WikiWorks, my MediaWiki consulting company. Links for some of the topics discuss...
Episode 135: Ed Sanders
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 28, 2023 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Ed Sanders is a Principal Software Engineer, as well as the tech lead, in the Editing Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been involved with developing the VisualEditor extension since 2013. He has also helped with developing other applications, like the DiscussionToo...
Episode 134: BTB Digest 21
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast - March 14, 2023 19:16 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings🕑 22 minutes Have you missed any recent episodes? Well, here are some clips for you. Hear Eric Gardner defending Vue.js, Nathan Brewer praising computer scientists of the past, Simon Stier considering the complexities of nested data structures, Ariel Gutman advocating for one language for Wik...
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