🕑 1 hour 34 minutes

Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator, researcher, and long-standing Open Knowledge advocate, working at the intersection of education, technology, innovation and openness. She is the founder of the AI Bridges project at the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London. She is also a former member and vice chair of the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Digital Humanities Research Hub
• AI-BRIDGES
• "World model (artificial intelligence)" Wikipedia article

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes

Cory Massaro is a staff software engineer on the Abstract Wikipedia team at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Cory Massaro website
• Abstract Wikipedia
• Wikifunctions
• WikiLambda MediaWiki extension
• "Wikilambda the Ultimate" (2026 paper by Michael Falk)
• We Can Be Luddites (Cory Massaro Substack account)
• "The Great Conversation: Complicated Translations of The Odyssey" (Benjamin LaBadie, February 2024)

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes

Daniel Dobriy is the founder and managing director of the company Dobriy AI. He is also a researcher at WU Vienna University and Austria's Bilateral AI Cluster of Excellence.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Dobriy AI
• Daniel Dobriy homepage
• Agentic Data Catalogue
  • Web of Data Catalogue
  • Search of Engine for the Web of Data
• WikiApiary
• ECHOLOT
• NeoWiki MediaWiki extension
• GraphHub

🕑 27 minutes

Clips from five recent episodes! Liam Wyatt considers LLMs as a vessel for Wikipedia content; Steve Shattuck weighs Cargo against Semantic MediaWiki; Paul Vodrazka lays out how he became an AI coder; Noam Cohen defends Wikipedia from charges of bias; Wandji Collins recounts becoming a MediaWiki volunteer; and more!

🕑 1 hour 35 minutes

Ad Strack van Schijndel is the founder and CEO of Juggel, a Dutch company whose product, also named Juggel, is an AI-centered MediaWiki distribution. Before founding Juggel, he was the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based consulting company Wikibase Solutions.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Juggel
• Wikibase Solutions
• Juggel AI
• "MediaWiki for lazy people" - talk by Ad at MUDCon spring 2026
• NeoWiki MediaWiki extension

🕑 1 hour 3 minutes

Sandra Fauconnier is an art historian by training who works on digital projects in the cultural sector. She has worked at different times for Wikimedia Nederland, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikimedia Sverige.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Sandra Fauconnier user page on Meta-Wiki
• Sandra Fauconnier user page on Wikidata
• Sandra Fauconnier user page on MediaWiki Commons
• Structured Data on Commons
• Modeling works on Commons without a Wikidata item
• Sandra reading from the "Paul Otlet" article for WikiReadings

🕑 52 minutes

Wandji Collins is a software engineer and engineering manager at Tech Chantier, as well as a volunteer MediaWiki developer.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Tech Chantier
• Between the Brackets Episode 36: Derick Alangi
• Wiki Mentor Africa
• Lexicographical data on Wikidata
• Page Forms MediaWiki extension

🕑 1 hour 15 minutes

Noam Cohen is a journalist and writer who has written extensively about Wikipedia since 2007 for publications including The New York Times and Wired. He is the author of the 2017 book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball, which was just released in paperback form with a new introduction by the author.

You can also see this interview in video form, on YouTube.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• The Know-It-Alls website
• Noam Cohen's Wikipedia user page
• "Wikipedia:Noam Cohen" page (includes links to Noam's articles about Wikipedia)

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Paul Vodrazka is a shift leader in the CNC (computer numerical control) department at the Winnipeg-based company Custom Castings. He manages the internal wikis for Custom Castings, and is also the author of the MediaWiki extension Layers.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Custom Castings
• "Computer numerical control" Wikipedia article
• Layers MediaWiki extension
  • Layers code on GitHub
• "Claude (language model)" Wikipedia article
• "Lindy effect" Wikipedia article

🕑 23 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Hear clips from five recent episodes. Cormac Parle notes the challenges in structured data in Wikimedia Commons, Vera de Kok reminisces about her early years as a Wikimedia photographer; Stephen Harrison cautions against dismissing AI encyclopedias; Brian Wolff summarizes the philosophy of JavaScript gadgets, Shlomit Lir points out the tension between equity and neutrality, and more!