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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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All Episodes

01:39:00

Episode 178: Jonathan Lee

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2025/03/11

🕑 1 hour 39 minutes Jonathan Lee is the director of the MediaWiki-based wiki hosting company Weird Gloop. Links for some of the topics discussed: Weird Gloop "Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom" (October 2024 blog post) The RuneScape wiki OSRS ("Old School RuneScape") Wiki Fandom RuneScape Grand Market tutorial video from 2017 "How to Make an Old Fashioned" (Mahalo.com instructional video from 2010)

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Episode 177: BTB Digest 28

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2025/02/25

🕑 37 minutes It's a BTB Digest episode! Bertrand Gorge lists his favorite extensions, Stephen Harrison contrasts himself with the characters in his novel, Richard Knipel justifies the Wikimedia Movement Charter, Tom Arrow (and others) consider the current state of Wikibase, Brian Wolff defends his old boss at the WMF, and more!

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01:10:59

Episode 176: Selena Deckelmann

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2025/02/11

🕑 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: Mozilla Foundation Wikipedia article Media knowledge beyond Wikipedia: Response from the Selena Deckelmann, CPTO at the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Commons talk page discussion)

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01:26:31

Episode 175: Trevor Parscal

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2025/01/28

🕑 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: Ross Ulbricht Wikipedia article "More Speech and Fewer

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01:15:03

Episode 174: Brian Wolff

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2025/01/15

🕑 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: "New Calculator template brings interactivity at last" (Wikipedia Signpost article by Brian Wolff, January 2025) Calculator template on English-language Wikipedia BMI calculator on "Body mass index" article "John Travoltage"

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01:42:03

Episode 173: Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde

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2024/12/31

🕑 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: Wikimedia Deutschland Lightbug "Alcohol

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01:18:19

Episode 172: Richard Knipel

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/12/17

🕑 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: Wikimedia Movement Charter Wikispore "Grant project for Wikinews" proposal "World AIDS Day 2024 is marked around the world" (Wikinews article mostly written by Richard)

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Episode 171: BTB Digest 27

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/12/03

🕑 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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01:00:07

Episode 170: Stephen Harrison

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/11/19

🕑 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: Stephen Harrison website Source Notes blog/newsletter Stephen

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01:08:32

Episode 169: Bertrand Gorge

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/11/05

🕑 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 Neayi "Rotations en grandes cultures" (Triple Performance article about crop rotation) Neayi GitHub account Triple Performance Google Spreadsheets add-on Triple Performance Docker image

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01:09:42

Episode 168: Asaf Bartov

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/10/22

🕑 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. 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)

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01:41:23

Episode 167: Valerio Bozzolan

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/10/08

🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Valerio Bozzolan is a software developer and Linux adminstrator 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: Istituto tecnico industriale statale Amedeo Avogadro (Italian Wikipedia article) Chiedi il rimborso del sistemo (in)operativo! ("Ask for a

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01:06:41

Episode 166: Paul Cereghino

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2024/09/24

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Paul Cereghino is a restoration ecologist for the U.S. federal government, where he also supports the development and adminstration of the Salish Sea Restoration wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Salish Sea Restoration wiki Salish Sea Wikipedia article "Do you love seafood? Here's how to eat it responsibly" (NPR article, September 2024) "I Want To Eat Fish Responsibly. But The Seafood Guides Are So Confusing!" (NPR article, March 2017) List of all restoration

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Episode 165: BTB Digest 26

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/09/10

🕑 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 ·

2024/08/27

🕑 2 hours Alex Stinson is Lead Program Strategist for the Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team WikiProjects Campaign PetScan List-Building Tool Research on Language-Agnostic Topic Classification Esperanza (2005-2006 project on Wikipedia) CampaignEvents MediaWiki extension Programs & Events Dashboard description Programs & Events Dashboard

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01:35:01

Episode 163: Brent Laabs

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/08/14

🕑 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: Miraheze WikiTide Foundation Between the Brackets Episode 31: John Lewis All The Tropes wiki Miraheze-WikiTide merger FAQ Requests for Comment/Reorganization of Miraheze (December 2023) Requests for Comment/Miraheze's name and branding (April 2024) WikiForge DynamicPageList3

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01:02:32

Episode 162: Viktor Schelling

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/05/07

🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Viktor Schelling is the Senior Principal MediaWiki Developer at Pegasystems. Links for some of the topics discussed: Pegasystems Wikipedia article Wikibase Solutions FlexForm MediaWiki extension Open CSP

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01:27:45

Episode 161: Moritz Schubotz

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/04/25

🕑 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: Dr. Moritz Schubotz CV and publications Math MediaWiki extension MathSearch MediaWiki extension MathML Wikipedia article MathJax Wikipedia article

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01:42:53

Episode 160: Megan Cutrofello

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/04/09

🕑 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: wiki.gg "What's going on with gaming communities moving from Fandom to Wiki.gg?" (2023 Reddit thread) River Writes blog The Sea of Thieves Wiki DRUID (Data Representation Ultra Infobox Design) infoboxes

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Episode 159: BTB Digest 25

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2024/03/26

🕑 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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