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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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01:22:03

Episode 118: Jake Orlowitz

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2022/08/02

🕑 1 hour 22 minutes Jake Orlowitz is the lead of the management consulting company WikiBlueprint. Before founding WikiBlueprint, he worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where his projects included The Wikipedia Library and The Wikipedia Adventure. He has been open about his former struggles with mental health, and Wikipedia's role in helping him overcome them. He can be reached at jorlowitzATgmailDOTcom. Links for some of the topics discussed: Jake Orlowitz homepage "How Wikipedia Drove Professors

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01:06:29

Episode 117: Brian Wolff

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2022/07/19

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes Brian Wolff is back on the program - he was a longtime member of the Security team at the Wikimedia Foundation, then worked at Asana, and is now temporarily unemployed. He is still thankfully involved with MediaWiki as a volunteer developer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Asana Wikipedia article Abstract Wikipedia Wikipedia article Filecoin Wikipedia article "Blockchain: A game changer for audit processes" (Deloitte article) Vector 2022 MediaWiki skin Code review

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01:13:20

Episode 116: Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman

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2022/07/05

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman are both developers in the Abstract Wikipedia group at the Wikimedia Foundation; Adam is the director of engineering, while Julia is a senior software engineer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Abstract Wikipedia page on Meta-Wiki Wikifunctions Wikipedia article WikiLambda MediaWiki extension Not Wikilambda - Wikifunctions test site Abstract Wikipedia natural language generation proposal by Ariel Gutman July 2021 mailing list post by Dan

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29:32

Episode 115: BTB Digest 18

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/06/21

🕑 30 minutes It's another BTB Digest episode! Mike Cariaso explains why you should use SQLite, Tyler Cipriani talks about teaching deployment to volunteers, Dror Snir-Haim compares translation options, Alex Hollender defends sticky headers, Kunal Mehta criticizes Bitcoin miners, and more!

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01:37:31

Episode 114: Lionel Scheepmans

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2022/06/07

🕑 1 hour 38 minutes Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Links for some of the topics discussed: Lionel Scheepmans page on Meta-Wiki Imagine un monde ("Imagine a world") - Lionel's PhD thesis PDF version Lionel's 2022 WMF elections candidacy page Rainbow Gathering Wikipedia article Universal

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01:11:05

Episode 113: Matthew Westerby

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2022/05/24

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early American Landscape Design. Links for some of the topics discussed: History of Early American Landscape Design National Gallery of Art Wikipedia article Center for Advanced Study in the

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Episode 112: Kunal Mehta

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2022/05/10

🕑 57 minutes Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.) Links for some of the topics discussed: Freedom of the Press Foundation Freedom of the Press Foundation > Kunal Mehta Freedom of the Press Foundation > Erik Moeller SecureDrop Wikipedia article XKCD "free speech" comic Mastodon Wikipedia

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02:18:23

Episode 111: Alex Hollender

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2022/04/26

🕑 2 hours 18 minutes Alex Hollender is a product designer on the Reading Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been with the WMF since 2018. Links for some of the topics discussed: Create Build Destroy (fashion label) AltSchool Wikipedia article VideoWiki (now-archived MediaWiki extension) Desktop Improvements project Desktop Improvements talk page (comments welcome!) Vector 2022 skin "Blue whale" article on Vector skin upcoming features demo site The Humane Interface (UI book by Jef

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01:19:44

Episode 110: Dror Snir-Haim

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2022/04/12

🕑 1 hour 20 minutes Dror Snir-Haim, or Dror Snir, also known as FreedomFighterSparrow, is the main developer of Kol-Zchut, a wiki (run by a nonprofit organization of the same name) dedicated to enumerating the rights and entitlements of citizens of Israel. Links for some of the topics discussed: Kol Zchut (כל-זכות) English-language site Arabic-language site Kolbotek Wikipedia article Kol Zchut Cargo tables Kol Zchut GitHub repository ArticleRanking MediaWiki extension

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28:57

Episode 109: BTB Digest 17

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2022/03/29

🕑 29 minutes Clips from five recent episodes: Marshall Miller talks about gamification of Wikipedia editing, Jared Olson describes the U.S. Space Force wiki, Wolfgang Fahl mentions the three Cambridges, Florian Schmidt praises weekly software upgrades, Jay Prakash wishes for more hackathons, and more!

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01:12:33

Episode 108: Tyler Cipriani

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2022/03/15

🕑 1 hour 13 minutes Tyler Cipriani is the engineering manager for release engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked at the WMF since 2015. Links for some of the topics discussed: Public Domain Day 2022 "How we deploy code" (2021 blog post by Tyler) Trainsperiment week "Diving Into Our Deployment Data: Deploy trainbows; not painbows" (2021 blog post by Tyler) Release engineering yak shaving Deployment training GitLab page on mediawiki.org Gerrit to GitLab Phorge (Phabricator

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01:32:46

Episode 107: Mike Cariaso

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2022/03/01

🕑 1 hour 33 minutes Mike Cariaso is back, as the first-ever repeat guest on Between the Brackets! Mike is the co-creator (with Greg Lennon) of the wiki SNPedia, and the associated software Promethease, which matches an individual human genome sequence against the data in SNPedia. In 2019, Mike and Greg sold SNPedia and Promethease to the Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage. Links for some of the topics discussed: SNPedia SNPedia Wikipedia article "MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia"

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01:24:09

Episode 106: Jay Prakash

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2022/02/15

🕑 1 hour 24 minutes Jay Prakash is the co-founder of both the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group and Indic-TechCom. At the 2021 Wikimania, he was named one of five Wikimedians of the Year, in the category of "Tech Innovator". He is also a college student and part-time MediaWiki consultant. Links for some of the topics discussed: "Meet Jay Prakash: Wikimedian of the Year 2021 Tech Innovator winner" (2012 Wikimedia Foundation blog post) Jay's 2019 Google Summer of Code project CountDownClock

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01:52:44

Episode 105: Florian Schmidt

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2022/02/01

🕑 1 hour 53 minutes Florian Schmidt has been a volunteer MediaWiki developer since 2014, and has run the wiki Android Wiki since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: MobileFrontend extension Android Wiki English-language version Android operating system Wikipedia article AcceleratedMobilePages extension CookieWarning extension

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01:34:52

Episode 104: Wolfgang Fahl

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2022/01/18

🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Wolfgang Fahl is the director and founder of the software training and consulting company BITPlan, and a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) in Germany. Links for some of the topics discussed: BITPlan BITPlan Wiki SMWCon list of attendees Test-driven development ConfIDent Openresearch ConferenceCorpus project WikiCFP geograpy Cynefin framework Blazegraph wikidata-taxonomy tool SPARQL Gremlin query language

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29:47

Episode 103: BTB Digest 16

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2022/01/04

🕑 30 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from Between the Brackets episodes from last year, including: Igor Absorto talking about open source development, Bill Pirkle explaining the WMF's API Platform initiative; Ziko van Dijk defining "wiki"; Bryan Hilderbrand learning lessons from Dilbert; and Jonathan Wilson praising the benefits of DIY.

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01:01:26

Episode 102: Jared Olson

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2021/12/21

🕑 1 hour 1 minute Jared Olson is a senior consultant at the military consulting firm DSoft, who is currently working with the United States Space Force. Before that he worked for NASA. Links for some of the topics discussed: DSoft U.S. Space Force Wikipedia article Platform One, Air Force "USSF Tactical Doctrine Wiki" (YouTube video), EMWCon Spring 2021 Meza

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Episode 101: Between the Brackets 2021 Holiday Special

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast ·

2021/12/07

🕑 38 minutes It's the holiday special! End-of-the-year recap, seasonal public domain music, and we discover the true meaning of Christmas.

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02:01:57

Episode 100: Yaron Koren

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2021/11/23

🕑 2 hours 2 minutes After 100 episodes, it's finally my turn to be on the show! I (Yaron) am a MediaWiki - and more specifically "Enterprise MediaWiki" - developer, consultant, author, evangelist and of course podcaster. My interviewer, Ike Hecht, is a fellow MediaWiki consultant and developer who was himself on episode 79. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiWorks Discourse DB Working with MediaWiki SMWCon EMWCon Docker Cargo Semantic Drilldown Miga "'Data is data' and the future of

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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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