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PODCAST

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.

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01:12:39

Episode 99: Marshall Miller and Ankan Ghosh Dastider

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/11/09

🕑 1 hour 13 minutes Marshall Miller is the product manager for the Growth team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Ankan Ghosh Dastider is a community ambassador with the Growth team for the Bengali-language Wikipedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Growth team Growth features Metrics for usage and impact of Growth features Growth team talk page (comments welcome) ORES

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01:24:45

Episode 98: Jonathan Wilson

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/10/26

🕑 1 hour 25 minutes Jonathan Wilson is a British solicitor who runs the wiki Mental Health Law Online. Links for some of the topics discussed: Mental Health Law Online MHLO Cargo tables BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) BAILII Case Law Search MHLO CPD scheme MHLO Forum

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01:10:45

Episode 97: Bryan Hilderbrand

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/10/12

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Bryan Hilderbrand runs the wiki consulting company TeGnosis, and is also a project manager for the wiki consulting company WikiWorks. Before becoming a consultant, he was a mechanical engineer (and MediaWiki maintainer) at Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Atlas Copco Mafi-Trench. Links for some of the topics discussed: TeGnosis WikiWorks Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) - Wikipedia article Page Exchange MediaWiki extension WatchAnalytics MediaWiki extension Who Wrote That

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01:16:19

Episode 96: Ziko van Dijk

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2021/09/28

🕑 1 hour 16 minutes Ziko van Dijk is a historian and wiki expert and consultant. From 2011 to 2014 he served as president of the Wikimedia Netherlands chapter, and is the co-founder of the German online children's encyclopedia Klexikon. He is the author of several books, most recently the 2021 book Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen: Eine Einführung. Links for some of the topics discussed: Ziko van Dijk homepage Ziko van Dijk user page on Meta-Wiki Ziko van Dijk YouTube channel Klexikon

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24:18

Episode 95: BTB Digest 15

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/09/14

🕑 24 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Robert Heine lays out his data structures, Nischay Nahata discusses his approach to in-wiki emailing, Ilana Fried talks about new features on Wikisource, Peter Meyer wishes for a general U.S. government wiki, Daisy Chen discusses WMF user research, and more.

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01:02:41

Episode 94: Bill Pirkle

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/08/31

🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Bill Pirkle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Platform Engineering Team API Platform initiative "Add an image" feature Apache Kafka Wikipedia article

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52:57

Episode 93: Igor Absorto

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/08/17

🕑 53 minutes Igor Absorto is a freelance developer and consultant, with a focus on MediaWiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Igor Absorto homepage Tor Wikipedia article Aran Dunkley user page on mediawiki.org (includes list of extensions) AjaxComments extension

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46:54

Episode 92: Daisy Chen

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/08/03

🕑 47 minutes Daisy Chen is a senior UX (user experience) researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Daisy Chen user page on mediawiki.org User experience Wikipedia article Wikimedia research/Usability testing

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01:12:10

Episode 91: Peter Meyer

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/07/20

🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Peter Meyer is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wikimedia DC chapter. He is also one of the organizers of the upcoming WikiConference North America 2021. Links for some of the topics discussed: "Statipedia: A wiki platform for collaboration across agencies" (2013 EMWCon presentation) Inventing Aviation wiki Homebrew Computer Club Wikipedia article "Episodes of Collective Invention" (2003 paper by Peter

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01:04:43

Episode 90: Ilana Fried

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/07/06

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Ilana Fried is the product manager for the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was the product manager for the Community Tech team at the WMF. She is also the founder of Gynopedia, a wiki for women's health information around the world. Links for some of the topics discussed: Gynopedia Gynopedia Wikipedia article WMF Community Tech team Community Wishlist Survey Watchlist expiry MediaWiki feature Who Wrote That? Wikipedia tool WMF Campaigns team

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21:00

Episode 89: BTB Digest 14

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/06/22

🕑 21 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Alexander Mashin attempts to add read-access control to MediaWiki, Jeffrey Wang recalls bailing out Wikispaces users, Liam Wyatt talks about the WMF struggling not to make too much money, Lars Dalgaard extols institutional memory, Jon Robson praises getting rid of institutional debt, and more.

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01:07:05

Episode 88: Nischay Nahata

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/06/08

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Nischay Nahata is the co-founder of Truww, a home interior company based in Bangalore, India. He is also a consultant for my MediaWiki consulting company, WikiWorks. Links for some of the topics discussed: Truww WikiWorks UploadWizard DocBookExport MediaWiki extension SketchUp Wikipedia article

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Episode 87: Robert Heine

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/05/25

🕑 54 minutes Robert Heine is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based site energypedia, and the consulting company energypedia consult GmbH. Links for some of the topics discussed: energypedia energypedia consult WebMo

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01:23:28

Episode 86: Jon Robson

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2021/05/11

🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Jon Robson is a developer in the Readers Web Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Skins Lab Star Citizen Wiki Wikimedia Desktop Improvements project Jon's listing of user scripts with client errors Wikimedia Vue UI (WVUI) library "Migrating code from MediaWiki's ResourceLoader to Webpack" (2019 blog post) "I believe strongly that in a decade from now..." (2019 Twitter post)

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01:04:45

Episode 85: Lars Dalgaard

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/04/27

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Lars Dalgaard is the geocoordinator for the Ballerup Municipality (or Ballerup Kommune), an area near Copenhagen. He maintains the municipality's internal wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Ballerup Municipality Wikipedia article Microsoft Power BI Wikipedia article Mapillary Wikipedia article Lars Dalgaard LinkedIn page

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01:38:34

Episode 84: Liam Wyatt

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/04/13

🕑 1 hour 39 minutes Liam Wyatt is a community liaison for the new Wikimedia Enterprise project, as well as a program officer for the WikiCite initiative. He was the first-ever Wikipedian in Residence, in 2010 at the British Museum, and organized the first three GLAM-Wiki conferences. He was also the co-host of the Wikipedia Weekly podcast from 2007 to 2009. Links for some of the topics discussed Wikipedia Weekly podcast Older episodes repository on archive.org Wikimedia Enterprise on Meta-Wiki

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34:19

Episode 83: BTB Digest 13

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/03/30

🕑 34 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Larry Sanger pitches the encyclosphere, Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner consider oral citations, Kate Chapman talks about decision-making, Ike Hecht praises small consulting companies, Adam Shorland discusses cleaning up Wikidata, and more.

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01:05:16

Episode 82: Jeffrey Wang

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2021/03/16

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Jeffrey Wang is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki hosting site MyWikis. Links for some of the topics discussed: MyWikis "An entrepreneur since age 11, Jeffrey Wang looks to combine business and tech after graduating from UNT TAMS", Denton Record-Chronicle, 2018 MyWikis GitHub account EmailLogger MediaWiki extension TopLink MediaWiki extension MyWikis Hosted Parsoid EMWCon Spring 2021

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01:30:54

Episode 81: Alexander Mashin

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/03/02

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Alexander Mashin is the administrator of the Russian wiki Traditio. He is also an SAP consultant, and has contributed to a number of MediaWiki extensions, including External Data. Links for some of the topics discussed: Traditio (Традиция) Alexander Mashin user page on Traditio External Data MediaWiki extension Alexander Mashin GitHub repository Forked LuaSandbox extension

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01:10:46

Episode 80: Adam Shorland

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/02/16

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Adam Shorland (also known as Addshore) is the Wikidata and Wikibase tech lead at Wikimedia Deutschland. Links for some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki-Docker-Dev Wikidata "Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata" (Wired magazine article, March 2019) Wikidata Walkabout Wikibase WBStack Wikibase installations: Wikibase Registry Rhizome's ArtBase Cradle Wikidata tool "Toward an Abstract Wikipedia" (proposal for Wikilambda/Wikifunctions)

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