Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

🕑 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

🕑 1 hour 13 minutes 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)

🕑 23 minutes 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!

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes 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.

🕑 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)

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes 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)

🕑 1 hour 4 minutes 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!

🕑 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)

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes 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)

🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Rita Ho is the senior groups design manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. She was formerly a member of the Growth Team, and is still actively involved in growth-related projects. Links for some of the topics discussed: Growth team - feature summary (slideshow) Graph of active editors over time for the English-language Wikipedia Suggested edits feature Growth team newsletter #26 (May 2023; includes analysis of Suggested edits) Content translation tool Article creation for new editors Translation task for homepage project GrowthExperiments MediaWiki extension Welcome survey project

🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Tom Harriman is a senior learning project manager at the technical training center of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He runs the NRC's wiki, Nuclepedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wikipedia article "Nuclepedia: Sharing Knowledge One Page At A Time" (EMWCon Spring 2020 talk, YouTube) Moodle Wikipedia article

🕑23 minutes It's a BTB Digest episode! Anton Krom thinks back to abandoning SharePoint in favor of MediaWiki, Bryan Hilderbrand finds a role for wikis in a world of AI, Ed Sanders reminisces on the early days of VisualEditor, Sanjay Thiyagarajan explains going without sleep at hackathons, and Sam Wilson describes the Phonos extension.

🕑 1 hour 15 minutes Ike Hecht, founder of the consulting company WikiTeq, is back to talk about weighty matters like AI, religion, and the singularity. Plus some pre-singularity thoughts on project management software and marketing. Links for some of the topics discussed: ELIZA Wikipedia article "Other Than In Computers, Civilization Basically Stopped Progressing In The 1960s" (2012 Business Insider article) Technological singularity Wikipedia article Zero to One Wikipedia article Blue Ocean Strategy Wikipedia article

🕑 58 minutes Danielle Batson is the wiki community manager for the non-profit organization FamilySearch, which is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Links for some of the topics discussed: FamilySearch FamilySearch Wikipedia article FamilySearch Research Wiki Family History Research Wiki Wikipedia article GoogleTranslator MediaWiki extension Replace Text MediaWiki extension Free online genealogy consultation from FamilySearch

🕑 1 hour 18 minutes Sam Wilson is a senior software engineer in the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation. This is his second time on Between the Brackets. Links for some of the topics discussed: Community Tech team Phonos MediaWiki extension WikiEditor Realtime Preview feature UnlinkedWikibase extension UnlinkedWikibase 1-indexed array bug Wikispore Module:ExtensionJson on mediawiki.org "State of Canasta" - EMWCon 2023 talk by Jeffrey Wang

🕑 1 hour 2 minutes Sanjay Thiyagarajan (username: Techwizzie) is a full-stack developer at JP Morgan Chase who has also done a significant amount of MediaWiki extension development as an intern and consultant at WikiWorks, my MediaWiki consulting company. Links for some of the topics discussed: Sanjay's mediawiki.org user page GoogleDocCreator MediaWiki extension RegularTooltips extension PagePermissions extension WatchAnalytics extension AWS Graviton Hackathon project gallery GenieNet

🕑 1 hour 23 minutes Ed Sanders is a Principal Software Engineer, as well as the tech lead, in the Editing Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been involved with developing the VisualEditor extension since 2013. He has also helped with developing other applications, like the DiscussionTools extension. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Editing Team VisualEditor VisualEditor on mobile Edit check project DiscussionTools Convenient Discussions JavaScript tool reply-link JavaScript tool Patch demo

🕑 22 minutes Have you missed any recent episodes? Well, here are some clips for you. Hear Eric Gardner defending Vue.js, Nathan Brewer praising computer scientists of the past, Simon Stier considering the complexities of nested data structures, Ariel Gutman advocating for one language for WikiFunctions, Waldir Pimenta recounting his adventures in translation, and more!

🕑 1 hour 42 minutes WikiWorks/TeGnosis consultant Bryan Hilderbrand returns to the podcast, to talk about the upcoming Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (April 19-21 in Austin, Texas), and various other topics. Links for some of the topics discussed: EMWCon Spring 2023 ChatGPT Wikipedia article WolframAlpha Wikipedia article Deep Thinking, 2017 book by Garry Kasparov EPIC 2014 (2004 video) Wikipedia article Abstract Wikipedia project page "The 20th anniversary of the rediscovery of calculus" (2014 blog post) Morton Effect (PDF file) WikiJournal User Group

🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Anton Krom is a longtime MediaWiki administrator and consultant. Links for some of the topics discussed: WikiTeq Wikiask Canasta Anton on Upwork

🕑 1 hour 44 minutes Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Portugal Timeline of founding Cape Verdean Creole ("kea") translation statistics Unicode CLDR Project "Geeks and Nerds" xkcd comic tldr pages application Community roles document Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund guidebook Emma Irwin and [Microsoft's] FOSS Fund Program (Sustain OSS podcast) GitHub Accelerator GiveDirectly Wikipedia article The Giving Pledge Wikipedia article Open Collective Foundation Toolforge abandoned tool policy Wikimate MediaWiki API wrapper "Non-Hierarchical Management", Aaron Swartz, 2009 Guido van Rossum on stepping down as Python's BDFL (YouTube video) DoOcracy (CommunityWiki) Teal organisation Wikipedia article Sortition Wikipedia article

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project. Links for some of the topics discussed: Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ariel Gutman, 2018 Google.org fellowship announcement, April 2022 Demo of a Scribunto-based templatic NLG system (video) Rendering of curated Abstract Content Source data for rendering "Ariel's goodbye letter", December 2022 Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation, December 2022 Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation - Answer, December 2022 Grammatical Framework Functional programming Wikipedia article "One Ring, or a thousand flowers?" - essay by Denny Vrandečić, November 2022

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform. Links for some of the topics discussed: Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) Open Semantic Lab on GitHub "Robotic sense of touch enabled by dielectric elastomer sensors and machine learning" (video about research project), YouTube OpenSemanticLab MediaWiki extension "OpenSemanticLab - SMW for Science and R&D" talk by Simon at SMWCon 2022, YouTube Multi-Content Revisions in MediaWiki JSON Editor tool

🕑 22 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong describes the difficulties in running a video game wiki, William Beutler ponders whether people should donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, and more!

🕑 48 minutes It's the 2022 holiday special! Featuring an all-star guest panel (Daisy Chen, Richard Knipel, Trevor Parscal and Denny Vrandečić) weighing in on the current Wikimedia sound logo competition. Hear their informed opinions! And if that wasn't enough, you can then listen to Lex Sulzer reminisce about jumping into snowy lakes.

🕑 36 minutes Nathan Brewer is the archival and digital content manager at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) History Center. He manages the IEEE's Engineering and Technology History Wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: IEEE Wikipedia article Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW) ETHW Innovation Map ETHW Timeline IEEE Milestones Wiki List of IEEE Milestones Public Demonstration of Online Systems and Personal Computing, 1968 ("Mother of All Demos") Milestones selfies

🕑 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 modern web" (Tom MacWright blog post) "Islands Architecture" (Jason Miller blog post) Astro web framework Wikimedia Commons Media Search Codex JS library Codex documentation

🕑 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 Wikipedian blog "Year in Review" category "Montgomerology" category "Wikipedia has Cancer" (essay by Guy Macon) Wikipedia and the Communications Professional: A primer "comprised of" (essay by Giraffedata)

🕑 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 it's 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

🕑 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

🕑 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.

🕑 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 Providers to PluggableAuth" initiative MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group WMF Inclusive Product Development initiative MediaWiki Cli (command-line interface) Keycloak Wikipedia article Network MediaWiki extension

🕑 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

🕑 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 Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet" (Jake's chapter of Wikipedia@20, 2019) Welcome to the Circle: the Mental Health Book (Jake Orlowitz, 2019) The Wikipedia Library Page on Wikipedia WikiBlueprint The Wikipedia Adventure GuidedTour MediaWiki extension "The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users" (2017 conference paper, Jake Orlowitz et al.)

🕑 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 statistics for core MediaWiki

🕑 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 Brickley about Cyc, the Semantic Web and Wikidata

🕑 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!

🕑 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 income Wikipedia article

🕑 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 Visual Arts Keywords in American Landscape Design by Therese O'Malley HEALD Image Collection page HEALD People category National Gallery of Art GitHub repository StickyTOC MediaWiki extension Dates page package Geolocation page package HEALD Fence page HEALD sample RDF export

🕑 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 article "Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million" (The Verge 2021 article) The NFT artwork Wikimedia RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations "How DevOps Sites Are Battling Cryptocurrency Miners" (The New Stack 2021 article) Kunal's email on "Uplifting the multimedia stack" mailing list thread

🕑 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 Raskin) Proposal for changing logo of MediaWiki, 2020/Round 1 Sharon Park Wikipedia Identity System (2019)

🕑 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

🕑 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!

🕑 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 fork) "Job Interviews By Zombies" (2022 blog post by Tyler) Release Engineering job opening Tyler Cipriani > Brewing