Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast Yaron Koren

🕑 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

🕑 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:
SMWCon Spring 2023  Abstract Wikipedia > Google.org Fellows evaluation answer > Scribunto "What is Wikiask?" (WikiConference North America 2022 talk) Twitter/X Note ranking algorithm "No, California wildfires aren’t caused by space lasers, and experts want people to stop asking about it" (2021 San Francisco Chronicle article) Mike Hughes (daredevil) Wikipedia article WikiJournal User Group Trofim Lysenko Wikipedia article "It's on Meta, but discoverable – organizational knowledge in a structured form" (Wikimania 2023 talk)

🕑 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 Empire Wikipedia article Douglas Latchford Wikipedia article "Unveiling the ancient Khmer world: Beyond Angkor mapping out over 13K SEA temples" (June 2023 article in The Phnom Penh Post)

🕑 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 of active editors over time for the English-language Wikipedia Suggested edits feature Growth team newsletter #26 (May 2023; includes analysis of Suggested edits) Content translation tool Article creation for new editors Translation task for homepage project GrowthExperiments MediaWiki extension Welcome survey project