Episode 212: Matthew Shell
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 1 minute Matthew Shell is an IT project manager who is the creator of the MediaWiki-based wiki farm GoalStriving. GoalStriving is intended for personal, private wikis; it is ad-free and pledges to never sell or share any user information. Links for some of the topics discussed: on Wikipedia MediaWiki extension You can also see a on YouTube.
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Episode 211: Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 34 minutes Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator, researcher, and long-standing Open Knowledge advocate, working at the intersection of education, technology, innovation and openness. She is the founder of the AI Bridges project at the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London. She is also a former member and vice chair of the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikipedia article
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Episode 210: Cory Massaro
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Cory Massaro is a staff software engineer on the Abstract Wikipedia team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki extension (2026 paper by Michael Falk) (Cory Massaro Substack account) (Benjamin LaBadie, February 2024)
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Episode 209: Daniel Dobriy
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Daniel Dobriy is the founder and managing director of the company Dobriy AI. He is also a researcher at WU Vienna University and Austria's Bilateral AI Cluster of Excellence. Links for some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki extension
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Episode 208: BTB Digest 33
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 27 minutes Clips from five recent episodes! Liam Wyatt considers LLMs as a vessel for Wikipedia content; Steve Shattuck weighs Cargo against Semantic MediaWiki; Paul Vodrazka lays out how he became an AI coder; Noam Cohen defends Wikipedia from charges of bias; Wandji Collins recounts becoming a MediaWiki volunteer; and more!
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Episode 207: Ad Strack van Schijndel
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Ad Strack van Schijndel is the founder and CEO of Juggel, a Dutch company whose product, also named Juggel, is an AI-centered MediaWiki distribution. Before founding Juggel, he was the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based consulting company Wikibase Solutions. Links for some of the topics discussed: - talk by Ad at MUDCon spring 2026 MediaWiki extension
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Episode 206: Sandra Fauconnier
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Sandra Fauconnier is an art historian by training who works on digital projects in the cultural sector. She has worked at different times for Wikimedia Nederland, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikimedia Sverige. Links for some of the topics discussed: on Meta-Wiki on Wikidata on MediaWiki Commons
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Episode 205: Wandji Collins
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 52 minutes Wandji Collins is a software engineer and engineering manager at Tech Chantier, as well as a volunteer MediaWiki developer. Links for some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki extension
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Episode 204: Noam Cohen
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 15 minutes Noam Cohen is a journalist and writer who has written extensively about Wikipedia since 2007 for publications including The New York Times and Wired. He is the author of the 2017 book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball, which was just released in paperback form with a new introduction by the author. You can also see this interview , on YouTube. Links for some of the topics discussed: website page (includes links to Noam's articles about Wikipedia)
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Episode 203: Paul Vodrazka
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Paul Vodrazka is a shift leader in the CNC (computer numerical control) department at the Winnipeg-based company Custom Castings. He manages the internal wikis for Custom Castings, and is also the author of the MediaWiki extension Layers. Links for some of the topics discussed: "" Wikipedia article MediaWiki extension on GitHub "" Wikipedia article "" Wikipedia article
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🕑 27 minutes
Clips from five recent episodes! Liam Wyatt considers LLMs as a vessel for Wikipedia content; Steve Shattuck weighs Cargo against Semantic MediaWiki; Paul Vodrazka lays out how he became an AI coder; Noam Cohen defends Wikipedia from charges of bias; Wandji Collins recounts becoming a MediaWiki volunteer; and more!