Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast Yaron Koren

🕑 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 application, among others.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Dr. Moritz Schubotz CV and publications Math MediaWiki extension MathSearch MediaWiki extension MathML Wikipedia article MathJax Wikipedia article Mathoid The MaRDI (Mathematical Research Data Initiative) Portal (Wikibase instance) zbMATH Open Wikimedia Community User Group Math

🕑 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 Fandom to Wiki.gg?" (2023 Reddit thread) River Writes blog The Sea of Thieves Wiki DRUID (Data Representation Ultra Infobox Design) infoboxes

🕑 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!

🕑 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

🕑 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 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