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.
🕑 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 enum…
🕑 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 Cambridg…
🕑 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.
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🕑 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 Promethea…
🕑 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…
🕑 1 hour 53 minutes
Florian Schmidt has been a volunteer MediaWiki developer since 2014, and has run the wiki Android Wiki since 2012.
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🕑 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 Tech…
🕑 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 Pla…
🕑 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.
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🕑 38 minutes
It's the holiday special! End-of-the-year recap, seasonal public domain music, and we discover the true meaning of Christmas.
🕑 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 an…
🕑 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-langu…
🕑 1 hour 25 minutes
Jonathan Wilson is a British solicitor who runs the wiki Mental Health Law Online.
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🕑 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 mecha…
🕑 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 on…
🕑 24 minutes
It's another BTB Digest! Robert Heine lays out his data structures, Nischay Nahata discusses his approach to in-wiki emailing, Ilana Fried talks about new features on Wikisource, Peter …
🕑 1 hour 3 minutes
Bill Pirkle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
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🕑 53 minutes
Igor Absorto is a freelance developer and consultant, with a focus on MediaWiki.
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🕑 47 minutes
Daisy Chen is a senior UX (user experience) researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2012.
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🕑 1 hour 12 minutes
Peter Meyer is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wikimedia DC chapter. He is also one of the organizers of…