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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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Episode 138: Danielle Batson

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2023/05/23

🕑 58 minutes Danielle Batson is the wiki community manager for the non-profit organization FamilySearch, which is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Links for some of the topics discussed: FamilySearch FamilySearch Wikipedia article FamilySearch Research Wiki Family History Research Wiki Wikipedia article GoogleTranslator MediaWiki extension Replace Text MediaWiki extension Free online genealogy consultation from FamilySearch

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Episode 137: Sam Wilson

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/04/25

🕑 1 hour 18 minutes Sam Wilson is a senior software engineer in the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is his second time on Between the Brackets. Links for some of the topics discussed: Community Tech team Phonos MediaWiki extension WikiEditor Realtime Preview feature UnlinkedWikibase extension UnlinkedWikibase 1-indexed array bug Wikispore Module:ExtensionJson on mediawiki.org "State of Canasta" - EMWCon 2023 talk by Jeffrey Wang

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Episode 136: Sanjay Thiyagarajan

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2023/04/11

🕑 1 hour 2 minutes Sanjay Thiyagarajan (username: Techwizzie) is a full-stack developer at JP Morgan Chase who has also done a significant amount of MediaWiki extension development as an intern and consultant at WikiWorks, my MediaWiki consulting company. Links for some of the topics discussed: Sanjay's mediawiki.org user page GoogleDocCreator MediaWiki extension RegularTooltips extension PagePermissions extension WatchAnalytics extension AWS Graviton Hackathon project gallery GenieNet

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01:23:03

Episode 135: Ed Sanders

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/03/28

🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Ed Sanders is a Principal Software Engineer, as well as the tech lead, in the Editing Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been involved with developing the VisualEditor extension since 2013. He has also helped with developing other applications, like the DiscussionTools extension. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Editing Team VisualEditor VisualEditor on mobile Edit check project DiscussionTools Convenient Discussions JavaScript tool

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Episode 134: BTB Digest 21

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/03/14

🕑 22 minutes Have you missed any recent episodes? Well, here are some clips for you. Hear Eric Gardner defending Vue.js, Nathan Brewer praising computer scientists of the past, Simon Stier considering the complexities of nested data structures, Ariel Gutman advocating for one language for WikiFunctions, Waldir Pimenta recounting his adventures in translation, and more!

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Episode 133: Bryan Hilderbrand

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2023/02/28

🕑 1 hour 42 minutes WikiWorks/TeGnosis consultant Bryan Hilderbrand returns to the podcast, to talk about the upcoming Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (April 19-21 in Austin, Texas), and various other topics. Links for some of the topics discussed: EMWCon Spring 2023 ChatGPT Wikipedia article WolframAlpha Wikipedia article Deep Thinking, 2017 book by Garry Kasparov EPIC 2014 (2004 video) Wikipedia article Abstract Wikipedia project page "The 20th anniversary of the rediscovery of calculus" (2014

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01:17:17

Episode 132: Anton Krom

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/02/14

🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Anton Krom is a longtime MediaWiki administrator and consultant. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiTeq Wikiask Canasta Anton on Upwork

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Episode 131: Waldir Pimenta

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/01/31

🕑 1 hour 44 minutes Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Portugal Timeline of founding Cape Verdean Creole ("kea") translation statistics Unicode CLDR Project "Geeks and Nerds" xkcd comic tldr pages application Community roles document Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund guidebook Emma Irwin and

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Episode 130: Ariel Gutman

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2023/01/17

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project. Links for some of the topics discussed: Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ariel Gutman, 2018 Google.org

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Episode 129: Simon Stier

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2023/01/03

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform. Links for some of the topics discussed: Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) Open Semantic Lab on GitHub "Robotic sense of touch enabled by dielectric elastomer sensors and machine learning" (video about research project), YouTube OpenSemanticLab MediaWiki

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Episode 128: BTB Digest 20

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/12/20

🕑 22 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong describes the difficulties in running a video game wiki, William Beutler ponders whether people should donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, and more!

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Episode 127: 2022 Holiday Special

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/12/06

🕑 48 minutes It's the 2022 holiday special! Featuring an all-star guest panel (Daisy Chen, Richard Knipel, Trevor Parscal and Denny Vrandečić) weighing in on the current Wikimedia sound logo competition. Hear their informed opinions! And if that wasn't enough, you can then listen to Lex Sulzer reminisce about jumping into snowy lakes.

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Episode 126: Nathan Brewer

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2022/11/22

🕑 36 minutes Nathan Brewer is the archival and digital content manager at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) History Center. He manages the IEEE's Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: IEEE Wikipedia article Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW) ETHW Innovation Map ETHW Timeline IEEE Milestones Wiki List of IEEE Milestones Public Demonstration of Online Systems and Personal Computing, 1968 ("Mother of All Demos")

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Episode 125: Eric Gardner

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/11/08

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes Eric Gardner is a senior software engineer on the Design Systems team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been heavily involved in the introduction of the Vue.js library into MediaWiki, and the creation of the related Codex library. Links for some of the topics discussed: Eric Gardner WMF page Eric's homepage WMF Design Systems Team Jekyll Wikipedia article 11ty (Eleventy) JS library RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (2019) "Second-guessing the

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Episode 124: William Beutler

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/10/25

🕑 1 hour 24 minutes William Beutler is the founder and president of the creative agency Beutler Ink, which, among other services, assists clients with their presence on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Previously, he ran the longtime blog The Wikipedian, and he has co-hosted several film podcasts. Links for some of the topics discussed: Beutler Ink William Beutler's personal Wikipedia account William's paid editing Wikipedia account Enter the Void podcast Primer episode Upstream Color episode The

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Episode 123: Jacqueline Wong

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/10/11

🕑 55 minutes Jacqueline Wong is a software developer who, in her free time, helps to host and maintain various video game-related wikis. Links for some of the topics discussed: Another Eden Wiki Another Eden Wiki:Discussion on Potential Fork "The online ad market is in decline and it’s dragging down tech giants with it" (CNN article, July 2022) Tears of Themis Wiki Dragalia Lost Wiki Mr. Love Wiki NIWA - Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance

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Episode 122: Marc Laporte

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/09/27

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes Marc Laporte is a longtime administrator of the Tiki application, the open source project also known as TikiWiki and Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. He also runs the related WikiSuite project, and the consulting company EvoluData. Links for some of the topics discussed: Marc Laporte homepage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Admin Group Tiki Trackers WikiSuite EvoluData

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Episode 121: BTB Digest 19

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/09/13

🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Matthew Westerby explains the challenges of storing dates, Lionel Scheepmans extols Wikiversity, Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman ponder the future of Wikipedia in a mechanized world, Brian Wolff shares his thoughts on Asana, and Jake Orlowitz recounts the highs and (somewhat) lows of working on The Wikipedia Adventure.

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Episode 120: Cindy Cicalese

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/08/30

🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Cindy Cicalese is a principal engineer for the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the general chair for the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki Conference, to be held October 26-28 in Breda, the Netherlands. She was the first-ever guest on this program, and now she's back for an all-new conversation. Links for some of the topics discussed: SMWCon Fall 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Platform Engineering Team PluggableAuth extension "Adding Multiple Identity

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Episode 119: Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/08/16

🕑 53 minutes Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson (left to right) are the founder and lead developer, respectively, of the site Protoball, a wiki about the prehistory and early history of baseball. Links for some of the topics discussed: Protoball "Doubleday myth" Wikipedia article List of Diggers Enhanced search page

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