Episode 216: Christian Erlinger
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Christian Erlinger is a digital librarian and GLAM consultant; he is also the general chair for the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) Fall 2026, which will be held November 11-13, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Links for some of the topics discussed: (Knowledge Management Associates) (GLAM wiki enthusiasts network) on EpiMedDat on EpiMedDat
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Episode 215: Mahir Morshed
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 25 minutes Dr. Mahir Morshed is a data scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in North Carolina. He is also an administrator on Wikidata and the Bengali-language Wikisource. Links for some of the topics discussed: (talk by Mahir at Wikimania 2026) (2024 paper by Mahir Morshed) statement construction system
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Episode 214: BTB Digest 34
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 25 minutes Highlights from five recent episodes! Sandra Fauconnier notes the irony of centralization in the Semantic Web, Ad Strack van Schijndel discusses the workings of Juggel, Daniel Dobriy extols wikis for AI, Cory Massaro praises the translation abilities of Abstract Wikipedia, Shani Evenstein Sigalov discusses the role of nonprofits in AI, and more!
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Episode 213: Waldir Pimenta
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
🕑 1 hour 32 minutes Waldir Pimenta returns to talk about the recent Wikimania, the hackathon-to-development pipeline, unionization and other topics. Links for some of the topics discussed: (Wikimania hackathon team project) (semantic image search for Commons) at Wikimania 2026 at Abstract Wikipedia Outline of episode: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:20 - Cape Verde at the world cup 0:10:30 - Recap of recent activity 0:15:00 - Wikimania impressions 0:25:00 - Wikinewsie 0:27:30 - Wikimania Hackathon project: Portrait categorizer 0:28:45 - Team Challenges: Map the Gap 0:40:10 - Experimentation...
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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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🕑 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!