π 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 m...
Nov 08, 2022β’1 hr 8 minβ’Season 1Ep. 125
π 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 Wikipe...
Oct 25, 2022β’1 hr 24 minβ’Season 1Ep. 124
π 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 itβs 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...
Oct 11, 2022β’55 minβ’Season 1Ep. 123
π 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...
Sep 27, 2022β’1 hr 5 minβ’Season 1Ep. 122
π 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.
Sep 13, 2022β’26 minβ’Season 1Ep. 121
π 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 ...
Aug 30, 2022β’1 hr 9 minβ’Season 1Ep. 140
π 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...
Aug 16, 2022β’53 minβ’Season 1Ep. 119
π 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 Profess...
Aug 02, 2022β’1 hr 22 minβ’Season 1Ep. 118
π 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 sta...
Jul 19, 2022β’1 hr 6 minβ’Season 1Ep. 117
π 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 ...
Jul 05, 2022β’1 hr 13 minβ’Season 1Ep. 116
π 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!
Jun 21, 2022β’30 minβ’Season 1Ep. 115
π 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 basic ...
Jun 07, 2022β’1 hr 38 minβ’Season 1Ep. 114
π 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...
May 24, 2022β’1 hr 11 minβ’Season 1Ep. 113
π 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 Wiki...
May 10, 2022β’57 minβ’Season 1Ep. 112
π 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 Ras...
Apr 26, 2022β’2 hr 18 minβ’Season 1Ep. 111
π 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 (ΧΧ-ΧΧΧΧͺ) English-language site Arabic-language site Kolbotek Wikipedia article Kol Zchut Cargo tables Kol Zchut GitHub repository ArticleRanking MediaWiki extension...
Apr 12, 2022β’1 hr 20 minβ’Season 1Ep. 110
π 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!
Mar 29, 2022β’29 minβ’Season 1Ep. 109
π 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 for...
Mar 15, 2022β’1 hr 13 minβ’Season 1Ep. 108
π 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 "...
Mar 01, 2022β’1 hr 33 minβ’Season 1Ep. 107
π 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 M...
Feb 15, 2022β’1 hr 24 minβ’Season 1Ep. 106
π 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...
Feb 01, 2022β’1 hr 53 minβ’Season 1Ep. 105
π 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-WestfΓ€lische 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...
Jan 18, 2022β’1 hr 35 minβ’Season 1Ep. 104
π 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.
Jan 04, 2022β’30 minβ’Season 1Ep. 103
π 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...
Dec 21, 2021β’1 hr 1 minβ’Season 1Ep. 102
π 38 minutes It's the holiday special! End-of-the-year recap, seasonal public domain music, and we discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Dec 07, 2021β’39 minβ’Season 1Ep. 101
π 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 da...
Nov 23, 2021β’2 hr 2 minβ’Season 1Ep. 100
π 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...
Nov 09, 2021β’1 hr 13 minβ’Season 1Ep. 99
π 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...
Oct 26, 2021β’1 hr 25 minβ’Season 1Ep. 98
π 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...
Oct 12, 2021β’1 hr 11 minβ’Season 1Ep. 97
π 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 EinfΓΌhrung . 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 Childre...
Sep 28, 2021β’1 hr 16 minβ’Season 1Ep. 96
