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A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast Yaron Koren

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A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.

    Danielle Batson

    Danielle Batson

    🕑 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 Family History Research Wiki Wikipedia article GoogleTranslator MediaWiki extension Replace Text MediaWiki extension Free online genealogy consultation from FamilySearch

    • 57 min
    Sam Wilson

    Sam Wilson

    🕑 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 feature UnlinkedWikibase extension UnlinkedWikibase 1-indexed array bug Wikispore Module:ExtensionJson on mediawiki.org "State of Canasta" - EMWCon 2023 talk by Jeffrey Wang

    • 1 hr 17 min
    Sanjay Thiyagarajan

    Sanjay Thiyagarajan

    🕑 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 discussed:
    Sanjay's mediawiki.org user page GoogleDocCreator MediaWiki extension RegularTooltips extension PagePermissions extension WatchAnalytics extension AWS Graviton Hackathon project gallery GenieNet

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Ed Sanders

    Ed Sanders

    🕑 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 DiscussionTools extension.
    Links for some of the topics discussed:
    Wikimedia Foundation Editing Team VisualEditor VisualEditor on mobile Edit check project DiscussionTools Convenient Discussions JavaScript tool reply-link JavaScript tool Patch demo

    • 1 hr 23 min
    BTB Digest 21

    BTB Digest 21

    🕑 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 WikiFunctions, Waldir Pimenta recounting his adventures in translation, and more!
     

    • 22 min
    Bryan Hilderbrand

    Bryan Hilderbrand

    🕑 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 article WolframAlpha Wikipedia article Deep Thinking, 2017 book by Garry Kasparov EPIC 2014 (2004 video) Wikipedia article Abstract Wikipedia project page "The 20th anniversary of the rediscovery of calculus" (2014 blog post) Morton Effect (PDF file) WikiJournal User Group

    • 1 hr 41 min

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