Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

🕑 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

🕑 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" (2019 press release) Cost per human genome graph MediaWiki SQLite support Rust (programming language) Wikipedia article Raku (programming language) Wikipedia article G-code Wikipedia article Fsn (file manager) Wikipedia article

🕑 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" (Wikimedia Foundation blog post) Jay's 2019 Google Summer of Code project CountDownClock MediaWiki extension Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group Indic-TechCom Indic-OCR "Uplifting the multimedia stack" (wikitech-l mailing list thread)

🕑 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