Episode 165: BTB Digest 26
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 23 minutes It's another BTB Digest, with highlights from five recent episodes. Jeffrey Wang discusses competing for European users, Taavi Väänänen describes the RealMe extension, Megan Cutrofello defends video game wikis with "spoilers", Moritz Schubotz analyzes MediaWiki as a math publishing tool, Viktor Schelling reminisces on the early days of a consulting company, and more!
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Episode 164: Alex Stinson
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 2 hours Alex Stinson is Lead Program Strategist for the Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: (2005-2006 project on Wikipedia) MediaWiki extension
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Episode 163: Brent Laabs
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Brent Laabs (user name Labster) is chair of the board and acting president of the WikiTide Foundation, the nonprofit foundation that runs the wiki farm Miraheze. Links for some of the topics discussed: wiki (December 2023) (April 2024) MediaWiki extension
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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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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
- "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