Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

🕑 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 Visua...

🕑 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!  

🕑 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) Wikiped...

🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Anton Krom is a longtime MediaWiki administrator and consultant. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiTeq Wikiask Canasta Anton on Upwork

🕑 1 hour 44 minutes Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Portugal Timeline of founding Cape Verdean Creole ("kea") translation statistics Unicode CLDR Project "Geeks and Nerds" xkcd comic tldr pages...

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project. Links for some of the topics dis...

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform. Links for some of the topics discussed: Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) Open Semantic Lab on GitHub "Robotic sense of touch enabled by dielectric elast...

🕑 22 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong describes the difficulties in running a video game wiki, William Beutler ponders whether people should donate...

🕑 48 minutes It's the 2022 holiday special! Featuring an all-star guest panel (Daisy Chen, Richard Knipel, Trevor Parscal and Denny Vrandečić) weighing in on the current Wikimedia sound logo competition . Hear their informed opinions! And if that wasn't enough, you can then listen to Lex Sulzer reminisce about jumping into snowy lakes.

🕑 36 minutes Nathan Brewer is the archival and digital content manager at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) History Center. He manages the IEEE's Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: IEEE Wikipedia article Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW) ETHW Innovation Map ETHW Timeline IEEE Milestones Wiki List of IEEE Milesto...

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes Eric Gardner is a senior software engineer on the Design Systems team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been heavily involved in the introduction of the Vue.js library into MediaWiki, and the creation of the related Codex library. Links for some of the topics discussed: Eric Gardner WMF page Eric's homepage WMF Design Systems Team Jekyll Wikipedia article 11ty (Eleventy) JS l...

🕑 1 hour 24 minutes William Beutler is the founder and president of the creative agency Beutler Ink, which, among other services, assists clients with their presence on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Previously, he ran the longtime blog The Wikipedian, and he has co-hosted several film podcasts. Links for some of the topics discussed: Beutler Ink William Beutler's personal Wikipedia account William's pa...

🕑 55 minutes Jacqueline Wong is a software developer who, in her free time, helps to host and maintain various video game-related wikis. Links for some of the topics discussed: Another Eden Wiki Another Eden Wiki:Discussion on Potential Fork "The online ad market is in decline and it's dragging down tech giants with it" (CNN article, July 2022) Tears of Themis Wiki Dragalia Lost Wiki Mr. Love Wik...

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Marc Laporte is a longtime administrator of the Tiki application, the open source project also known as TikiWiki and Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. He also runs the related WikiSuite project, and the consulting company EvoluData. Links for some of the topics discussed: Marc Laporte homepage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Admin Group Tiki Trackers WikiSuite EvoluData

🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Matthew Westerby explains the challenges of storing dates, Lionel Scheepmans extols Wikiversity, Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman ponder the future of Wikipedia in a mechanized world, Brian Wolff shares his thoughts on Asana, and Jake Orlowitz recounts the highs and (somewhat) lows of working on The Wikipedia Adventure.

🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Cindy Cicalese is a principal engineer for the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the general chair for the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki Conference, to be held October 26-28 in Breda, the Netherlands. She was the first-ever guest on this program, and now she's back for an all-new conversation. Links for some of the topics discussed: SMWCon Fall 202...

🕑 53 minutes Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson (left to right) are the founder and lead developer, respectively, of the site Protoball, a wiki about the prehistory and early history of baseball. Links for some of the topics discussed: Protoball " Doubleday myth " Wikipedia article List of Diggers Enhanced search page

🕑 1 hour 22 minutes Jake Orlowitz is the lead of the management consulting company WikiBlueprint. Before founding WikiBlueprint, he worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where his projects included The Wikipedia Library and The Wikipedia Adventure. He has been open about his former struggles with mental health, and Wikipedia's role in helping him overcome them. He can be reached at jorlowitzATgmail...

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Brian Wolff is back on the program - he was a longtime member of the Security team at the Wikimedia Foundation, then worked at Asana, and is now temporarily unemployed. He is still thankfully involved with MediaWiki as a volunteer developer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Asana Wikipedia article Abstract Wikipedia Wikipedia article Filecoin Wikipedia article "Blockchai...

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman are both developers in the Abstract Wikipedia group at the Wikimedia Foundation; Adam is the director of engineering, while Julia is a senior software engineer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Abstract Wikipedia page on Meta-Wiki Wikifunctions Wikipedia article WikiLambda MediaWiki extension Not Wikilambda - Wikifunctions test site Abstrac...

🕑 30 minutes It's another BTB Digest episode! Mike Cariaso explains why you should use SQLite, Tyler Cipriani talks about teaching deployment to volunteers, Dror Snir-Haim compares translation options, Alex Hollender defends sticky headers, Kunal Mehta criticizes Bitcoin miners, and more!

🕑 1 hour 38 minutes Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Links for some of the topics discussed: Lionel Scheepmans page on Meta-Wiki Imagine un monde ("Imagine a world") - Lionel's PhD thesis PDF ver...

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early American Landscape Design. Links for some of the topics discussed: History of Early...

🕑 57 minutes Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.) Links for some of the topics discussed: Freedom of the Press Foundation Freedom of the Press Foundation > Kunal Mehta Freedom of the Press...

🕑 2 hours 18 minutes Alex Hollender is a product designer on the Reading Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been with the WMF since 2018. Links for some of the topics discussed: Create Build Destroy (fashion label) AltSchool Wikipedia article VideoWiki (now-archived MediaWiki extension) Desktop Improvements project Desktop Improvements talk page (comments welcome!) Vector 2022 skin "Blu...