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🕑 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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🕑 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 Mathoid The MaRDI (Mathematical Research Data Initiative) Portal (Wikibase instance) zbMATH Open Wikimedia Community User Group Math -
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🕑 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 -
🕑 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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🕑 38 minutes
Taavi Väänänen is a site reliability engineer in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2022, when he was still just a volunteer contributor, he was named Tech Contributor of the Year by Jimmy Wales.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Taavi Väänänen homepage Wikimedia Toolforge CentralAuth MediaWiki extension RealMe MediaWiki extension "Fediverse" Wikipedia article -
🕑 1 hour 28 minutes
Jeffrey Wang returns to the podcast to talk about his new-ish job at Microsoft, his much older job as head of MyWikis, the upcoming MediaWiki conference, AI, and various other things.
Some of the topics discussed:
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2024 MyWikis MyWikis Europe "Why People Don't Like Fandom Wikis" (2022 blog post) "Microsoft Azure is a ~$56 billion business" (Runtime article) "MediaWiki @ Microsoft" (talk by Jeffrey at EMWCon Spring 2023) Canasta GitHub Copilot -
🕑 1 hour 9 minutes
Guillaume Coulombe is the head of Procédurable, a process consulting company with a focus on open source software and open data, and an even more specific focus on MediaWiki.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Procédurable Arbre-Évolution Coop "Understanding wiki collaboration in Quebec healthcare organizations" (2012 paper by Régis Barondeau) Wiki maraîcher "Autoconstruction" (DIY) portal Fab Labs Québec Le violon de Jos Collection of songs -
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Alan Ang and Kris Litson (pictured, left to right) are both employees at Wikimedia Deutschland, the German Wikimedia chapter: Alan is a partner manager for Wikidata, while Kris is head of software communications. The two are both involved in evangelism for both Wikidata and its backend software, Wikibase.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikidata Wikibase "Linked open data" on Wikipedia Wikidata REST API Wikibase Cloud Wikimedia Deutschland data partnerships (includes contact email address) List of some current partners Wikidata entries tagged as "big city" Wikidata Mismatch Finder -
🕑 52 minutes
Srishti Sethi (also known as SrishAkaTux) is a developer advocate in the Language Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Prior to the mass reorganization at the Wikimedia Foundation in summer 2023, she was part of the Technical Engagement team.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikimedia outreach programs Outreach programs success stories "Introducing Wishathon for Wikimedia’s Community Wishlist!" (December 2023 blog post) March 2024 online Wishathon event Language Team Phabricator workboard Wikimedia MinT (Machine in Translation) service "MinT: Supporting underserved languages with open machine translation" (June 2023 blog post) -
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It's another BTB Digest! Highlights from five recent episodes. Bryan Hilderbrand considers the future of scientific publishing, Jan Ainali thinks about solutions for Wikidata's messiness, Tricia Burmeister recounts the challenges of changing a wiki's front page, Ilias Sarantopoulos praises the new Lift Wing software, Alissa Stern explains how her wiki became a communications hub for the people of Bali, and more!
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It's not quite a holiday episode, but it is an end-of-year wrapup, featuring William Beutler, strategic marketing consultant and author of the blog The Wikipedian, which went on hiatus in 2020 and is now thankfully back. William shares some of the stories that he's working on for his "Top 10 Wikipedia Stories of 2023" feature (his first year-in-review in three years!), and we reminisce on the past year, in both the Wikimedia universe and the tech world in general.
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🕑 55 minutes
Birgit Müller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was Director of Technical Engagement. From 2014 to 2019, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Birgit's user page on mediawiki.org MediaWiki Product Insights Monthly MediaWiki Insights reports November 2023 report - includes statistics about review time improvements -
🕑 1 hour 52 minutes
Steve Schneider is a professor of information design at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly). He currently teaches a class, Digital Media and Information in Society, whose coursework is managed via Wikiversity and Wiki Edu, and also involves the use of ChatGPT by both teacher and students.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
"Mid-semester rookie report: Starting a wikiversity project & teaching a class with wikiedu assignments" (WikiConference North America 2023 talk) Digital Media and Information in Society course on Wikiversity Wiki Edu assignments for Digital Media and Information in Society WikimediaCourse on Wikiversity ChatGPT session that led to the Wikimedia course ChatGPT session to create a Wikidata SPARQL query "TiddlyWiki" Wikipedia article SUNY Wikimedia Project "Monorail" Wikipedia article (has included a "possibly generated by LLM" warning since July 2023) -
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Alissa Stern founded the organization BASAbali (later renamed BASAibu) in 2011, and the BASAbali Wiki in 2014. The BASAbali Wiki was originally intended to serve only as a dictionary for the Balinese language, but it has since grown to become a general communication hub for the Balinese community.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
BASAbali Wiki BASAsulsel Wiki BASAibu Indonesian Superhero Luh Ayu Balinese-language Wikipedia "BASAbali Wiki Recognized by US Consulate" (February 2023 blog post, Bali Discovery) -
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Ilias Sarantopoulos is a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been at the WMF since 2022.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikimedia Foundation Machine Learning team WMF machine learning modernization plan WMF machine learning model cards "Wikipedia's Moment of Truth" (The New York Times Magazine article, July 2023) Meta's No Language Left Behind (NLLB) project Model Drift & Decay -
🕑 1 hour 23 minutes
Tricia Burmeister is a senior technical writer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and part of the (relatively new) WMF Technical Documentation Team.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team Wikitech wiki main page restructuring diff Phabricator ticket that relates to this change MediaWiki Product Insights page Toolhub MintyDocs MediaWiki extension Documentation > Toolkit Documentation > Patterns > Landing page Huggle documentation page Wikifunctions site -
🕑 21 minutes
Clips from five recent episodes! Danielle Batson thinks about the future of genealogy, Ike Hecht considers the effect of AI on software, Tom Harriman describes the contents of Nuclepedia, Rita Ho praises the Content Translation tool, Allan Lim talks about becoming an amateur archaelogist, and more!
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🕑 60 minutes
Jan Ainali is a codebase steward for the Foundation for Public Code. On the side, he's an all-around Wikimedia editor, enthusiast and evangelist, with a special focus on Wikidata. He co-founded the Wikimedia Sverige chapter, co-created the Wikidata-based online resource Govdirectory, and co-hosts the (mostly Swedish-language) podcast WikipediaPodden, and that's not even everything!
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Wikimedia Sverige WikipediaPodden Wikipedia Weekly live Wikidata editing playlist Foundation for Public Code Govdirectory Semantic Web Wikipedia article (with Tim Berners-Lee quote) Wikimedians for Sustainable Development OpenRefine Foundation for Public Code's Standard for Public Code -
🕑 1 hour 16 minutes
Bryan Hilderbrand, MediaWiki consultant of TeGnosis and WikiWorks fame, is back on the podcast to talk about weighty matters like the future of science, the nature of truth, and whether periods need one or two spaces after them.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
SMWCon Spring 2023 Abstract Wikipedia > Google.org Fellows evaluation answer > Scribunto "What is Wikiask?" (WikiConference North America 2022 talk) Twitter/X Note ranking algorithm "No, California wildfires aren’t caused by space lasers, and experts want people to stop asking about it" (2021 San Francisco Chronicle article) Mike Hughes (daredevil) Wikipedia article WikiJournal User Group Trofim Lysenko Wikipedia article "It's on Meta, but discoverable – organizational knowledge in a structured form" (Wikimania 2023 talk) -
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Allan Lim is the founder of the wiki Beyond Angkor, which maps the locations of temples and other sites from the Khmer Empire, in modern-day Cambodia and surrounding countries.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
Beyond Angkor Beyond Angkor Facebook group Khmer Empire Wikipedia article Douglas Latchford Wikipedia article "Unveiling the ancient Khmer world: Beyond Angkor mapping out over 13K SEA temples" (June 2023 article in The Phnom Penh Post) - Se mer
