 ? 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? browser extension Grapevine winery wiki 

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

Episode 97: Bryan Hilderbrand

 ? 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 Einführung. 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 Children's Wikipedia (list of previous proposals) Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen Free PDF of the book 

Episode 96: Ziko van Dijk

 ? 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 Meyer wishes for a general U.S. government wiki, Daisy Chen discusses WMF user research, and more.

Episode 95: BTB Digest 15

 ? 1 hour 3 minutes Bill Pirkle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Platform Engineering Team API Platform initiative "Add an image" feature Apache Kafka Wikipedia article 

Episode 94: Bill Pirkle

 ? 53 minutes Igor Absorto is a freelance developer and consultant, with a focus on MediaWiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Igor Absorto homepage Tor Wikipedia article Aran Dunkley user page on mediawiki.org (includes list of extensions) AjaxComments extension 

Episode 93: Igor Absorto

 ? 47 minutes Daisy Chen is a senior UX (user experience) researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Daisy Chen user page on mediawiki.org User experience Wikipedia article Wikimedia research/Usability testing 

Episode 92: Daisy Chen

? 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 the upcoming WikiConference North America 2021. Links for some of the topics discussed: "Statipedia: A wiki platform for collaboration across agencies" (2013 EMWCon presentation) Inventing Aviation wiki Homebrew Computer Club Wikipedia article Wikimedia DC WikiConference North America 2021 

Episode 91: Peter Meyer

 ? 1 hour 5 minutes Ilana Fried is the product manager for the Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was the product manager for the Community Tech team at the WMF. She is also the founder of Gynopedia, a wiki for women's health information around the world. Links for some of the topics discussed: Gynopedia Gynopedia Wikipedia article WMF Community Tech team Community Wishlist Survey Watchlist expiry MediaWiki feature Who Wrote That? Wikipedia tool WMF Campaigns team 

Episode 90: Ilana Fried

 ? 21 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Alexander Mashin attempts to add read-access control to MediaWiki, Jeffrey Wang recalls bailing out Wikispaces users, Liam Wyatt talks about the WMF struggling not to make too much money, Lars Dalgaard extols institutional memory, Jon Robson praises getting rid of institutional debt, and more.  

Episode 89: BTB Digest 14

 ? 1 hour 7 minutes Nischay Nahata is the co-founder of Truww, a home interior company based in Bangalore, India. He is also a consultant for my MediaWiki consulting company, WikiWorks. Links for some of the topics discussed: Truww WikiWorks UploadWizard DocBookExport MediaWiki extension SketchUp Wikipedia article 

Episode 88: Nischay Nahata

 ? 54 minutes Robert Heine is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based site energypedia, and the consulting company energypedia consult GmbH. Links for some of the topics discussed: energypedia energypedia consult WebMo   

Episode 87: Robert Heine

 ? 1 hour 23 minutes Jon Robson is a developer in the Readers Web Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked for the Wikimedia Foundation since 2012. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Skins Lab Star Citizen Wiki Wikimedia Desktop Improvements project Jon's listing of user scripts with client errors Wikimedia Vue UI (WVUI) library "Migrating code from MediaWiki's ResourceLoader to Webpack" (2019 blog post) "I believe strongly that in a decade from now..." (2019 Twitter post) Wikimedia Commons "Search media" feature 

Episode 86: Jon Robson

 ? 1 hour 5 minutes Lars Dalgaard is the geocoordinator for the Ballerup Municipality (or Ballerup Kommune), an area near Copenhagen. He maintains the municipality's internal wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Ballerup Municipality Wikipedia article Microsoft Power BI Wikipedia article Mapillary Wikipedia article Lars Dalgaard LinkedIn page 

Episode 85: Lars Dalgaard

 ? 1 hour 39 minutes Liam Wyatt is a community liaison for the new Wikimedia Enterprise project, as well as a program officer for the WikiCite initiative. He was the first-ever Wikipedian in Residence, in 2010 at the British Museum, and organized the first three GLAM-Wiki conferences. He was also the co-host of the Wikipedia Weekly podcast from 2007 to 2009. Links for some of the topics discussed Wikipedia Weekly podcast Older episodes repository on archive.org Wikimedia Enterprise on Meta-Wiki Wikimedia Enterprise API FAQ Wikimedia Enterprise homepage Wikimedia, LLC Mozilla Corporation WikiCite on Meta-Wiki 

Episode 84: Liam Wyatt

 ? 34 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Larry Sanger pitches the encyclosphere, Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner consider oral citations, Kate Chapman talks about decision-making, Ike Hecht praises small consulting companies, Adam Shorland discusses cleaning up Wikidata, and more.

Episode 83: BTB Digest 13

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