Episode 155: Alan Ang and Kris Litson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
Release Date: 01/30/2024
Episode 162: Viktor Schelling
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Viktor Schelling is the Senior Principal MediaWiki Developer at Pegasystems. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikipedia article MediaWiki extension
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Episode 161: Moritz Schubotz
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: MediaWiki extension MediaWiki extension Wikipedia article Wikipedia article (Wikibase instance)
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Episode 160: Megan Cutrofello
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: (2023 Reddit thread) blog
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Episode 159: BTB Digest 25
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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!
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Episode 158: Taavi Väänänen
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: Wikipedia article
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Episode 157: Jeffrey Wang
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: (2022 blog post) (Runtime article) (talk by Jeffrey at EMWCon Spring 2023)
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Episode 156: Guillaume Coulombe
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: (2012 paper by Régis Barondeau)
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Episode 155: Alan Ang and Kris Litson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: on Wikipedia (includes contact email address)
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Episode 154: Srishti Sethi
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 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: (December 2023 blog post) (June 2023 blog post)
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Episode 153: BTB Digest 24
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 23 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Highlights from five recent episodes. Bryan Hilderbrand considers the future of scientific publishing, Jan Ainali thinks about solutions for Wikidata's messiness, Tricia Burmeister recounts the challenges of changing a wiki's front page, Ilias Sarantopoulos praises the new Lift Wing software, Alissa Stern explains how her wiki became a communications hub for the people of Bali, and more!
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🕑 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)
- Wikidata entries tagged as "big city"
- Wikidata Mismatch Finder