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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.

    BTB Digest 25

    BTB Digest 25

    🕑 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, Alan Ang lists the steps in getting a knowledge base onto Wikidata, Guillaume Coulombe compares MediaWiki expertise to martial arts, and more!

    • 21 min
    Yaron Koren

    Yaron Koren

    🕑 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 Väänänen homepage Wikimedia Toolforge CentralAuth MediaWiki extension RealMe MediaWiki extension "Fediverse" Wikipedia article

    • 37 min
    Jeffrey Wang

    Jeffrey Wang

    🕑 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 MyWikis Europe "Why People Don't Like Fandom Wikis" (2022 blog post) "Microsoft Azure is a ~$56 billion business" (Runtime article) "MediaWiki @ Microsoft" (talk by Jeffrey at EMWCon Spring 2023) Canasta GitHub Copilot

    • 1 hr 28 min
    Guillaume Coulombe

    Guillaume Coulombe

    🕑 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 wiki collaboration in Quebec healthcare organizations" (2012 paper by Régis Barondeau) Wiki maraîcher "Autoconstruction" (DIY) portal Fab Labs Québec Le violon de Jos Collection of songs

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Alan Ang and Kris Litson

    Alan Ang and Kris Litson

    🕑 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 its backend software, Wikibase.
    Links for some of the topics discussed:
    Wikidata Wikibase "Linked open data" on Wikipedia Wikidata REST API Wikibase Cloud Wikimedia Deutschland data partnerships (includes contact email address) List of some current partners Wikidata entries tagged as "big city" Wikidata Mismatch Finder

    • 1 hr 12 min
    Srishti Sethi

    Srishti Sethi

    🕑 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:
    Wikimedia outreach programs Outreach programs success stories "Introducing Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!" (December 2023 blog post) March 2024 online Wishathon event Language Team Phabricator workboard Wikimedia MinT (Machine in Translation) service "MinT: Supporting underserved languages with open machine translation" (June 2023 blog post)

    • 51 min

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