Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast Yaron Koren

🕑 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 the use of ChatGPT by both teacher and students.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
"Mid-semester rookie report: Starting a wikiversity project & teaching a class with wikiedu assignments" (WikiConference North America 2023 talk) Digital Media and Information in Society course on Wikiversity
Wiki Edu assignments for Digital Media and Information in Society WikimediaCourse on Wikiversity
ChatGPT session that led to the Wikimedia course
ChatGPT session to create a Wikidata SPARQL query
"TiddlyWiki" Wikipedia article SUNY Wikimedia Project "Monorail" Wikipedia article (has included a "possibly generated by LLM" warning since July 2023)

🕑 1 hour 6 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 the Balinese community.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
BASAbali Wiki BASAsulsel Wiki BASAibu Indonesian Superhero Luh Ayu Balinese-language Wikipedia "BASAbali Wiki Recognized by US Consulate" (February 2023 blog post, Bali Discovery)

🕑 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 learning model cards "Wikipedia's Moment of Truth" (The New York Times Magazine article, July 2023) Meta's No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project Model Drift & Decay

🕑 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 Phabricator ticket that relates to this change MediaWiki Product Insights page Toolhub MintyDocs MediaWiki extension Documentation > Toolkit Documentation > Patterns > Landing page Huggle documentation page Wikifunctions site

🕑 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 archaelogist, and more!

🕑 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 Govdirectory, and co-hosts the (mostly Swedish-language) podcast WikipediaPodden, and that's not even everything!
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikimedia Sverige WikipediaPodden Wikipedia Weekly live Wikidata editing playlist Foundation for Public Code Govdirectory Semantic Web Wikipedia article (with Tim Berners-Lee quote) Wikimedians for Sustainable Development OpenRefine Foundation for Public Code's Standard for Public Code