Episode 176: Selena Deckelmann
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Selena Deckelmann has been the Chief Product and Technology Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2022. Before that, she worked for around 10 years at the Mozilla Foundation, eventually reaching the position of Senior Vice President, Firefox. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Commons talk page discussion) (July 2023 blog post by Selena) project page on Meta-Wiki
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Episode 175: Trevor Parscal
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 27 minutes Former Wikimedia Foundation developer Trevor Parscal returns to the podcast to talk about the happy (to many) news that Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a double life sentence for having created and run the "dark web" website Silk Road, was just released from prison. We also talk about the state of U.S. politics in general, and what it means for the tech world - and for Wikipedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikipedia article "" (Meta blog post, January 2025) "" (Fast Company article, December 2024) "" (The Register article, January 2014) "" (Elon Musk X...
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Episode 174: Brian Wolff
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 15 minutes Brian Wolff returns for a third episode! The security expert and longtime MediaWiki developer does an in-person interview to talk about his latest development projects, and Wikimedia goings-on, past and present. Links for some of the topics discussed: (Wikipedia Signpost article by Brian Wolff, January 2025) on English-language Wikipedia online electricity simulator (New York Post article, April 2024) (City Journal article, April 2024)
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Episode 173: Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde (pictured, left to right) show up together for the final episode of 2024! Adam (username Addshore) returns for his second appearance; he has since left Wikimedia Deutschland and now works at Lightbug. Tom and Ollie remain at Wikimedia Deutschland, both working on Wikibase development, with a focus on Wikibase Cloud and the Wikibase API, respectively. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikipedia article (October 2024 blog post by Adam)
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Episode 172: Richard Knipel
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 19 minutes Richard Knipel (username Pharos) returns, for a special holiday-esque episode! He talks about recent developments with Wikispore, the Wikimedia Movement Charter, and Wikimedia New York City; and then we listen to some freely-licensed music from Wikimedia Commons. Links for some of the topics discussed: proposal (Wikinews article mostly written by Richard) (December 31, 2024) The music: from the Sonatine by Maurice Ravel, performed by Robert Casadesus performed by Dominique Manzadi by NEFFEX by Waclaw of Szamotuly, performed by Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz...
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Episode 171: BTB Digest 27
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest, with clips from five recent episodes! Brent Laabs recounts the abortive renaming of Miraheze, Alex Stinson considers the uniqueness of different language Wikipedias, Paul Cereghino notes the challenges of finding wiki editors in the government, Valerio Bozzolan argues for putting conference videos on PeerTube, Asaf Bartov warns about "weaponized AI" on Wikipedia, and more.
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Episode 170: Stephen Harrison
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour Stephen Harrison is a tech lawyer and journalist who has been writing about Wikipedia since 2018, including dozens of articles for the online magazine Slate as part of his Source Notes column. He is the author of the 2024 novel The Editors, which is about a group of editors of the fictional user-editable online encyclopedia "Infopendium" who are drawn together by dramatic events. Links for some of the topics discussed: (my apologies for casting aspersions - it's not that political any more! It was more political during the recent U.S. presidential election.) (October...
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Episode 169: Bertrand Gorge
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🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Bertrand Gorge is the co-founder of Triple Performance, a (currently) French-language-only wiki that holds resources for farmers. He also co-runs the company Neayi, which manages Triple Performance. Links for some of the topics discussed: (Triple Performance article about crop rotation)
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Episode 168: Asaf Bartov
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🕑 1 hour 10 minutes Asaf Bartov is the lead program officer for the Emerging Wikimedia Communities project of the Community Development Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He also runs Project Ben-Yehuda, which has been putting Hebrew-language texts online since 1999, and the Nemala project, which publishes Hebrew translations of Ukrainian-language works. Links for some of the topics discussed: (episode of the podcast Scuola di Pensiero) initiative (talk by Asaf at Wikimania CEE Meeting 2024)
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Episode 167: Valerio Bozzolan
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🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Valerio Bozzolan is a software developer and Linux administrator, as well as the president of the Italian Linux Society, the founder and head of Wikimedians for Software Freedom, a member of the volunteer technical commission of Wikimedia Italy, and an open source consultant for Wikimedia Switzerland. Links for some of the topics discussed: (Italian Wikipedia article) ("Ask for a refund for the (non-)operating system!") "" page "" page (powered by PeerTube)
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Asaf Bartov is the lead program officer for the Emerging Wikimedia Communities project of the Community Development Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He also runs Project Ben-Yehuda, which has been putting Hebrew-language texts online since 1999, and the Nemala project, which publishes Hebrew translations of Ukrainian-language works.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- "Wikimania 2019 - Asaf Bartov" (episode of the podcast Scuola di Pensiero)
- Project Ben-Yehuda
- Nemala initiative
- WMF Community Development Team
- WikiLearn
- Wikimania 2023 program
- "Defending our wikis against weaponized generative AI" (talk by Asaf at Wikimania CEE Meeting 2024)