🕑 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

🕑 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
• "Episodes of Collective Invention" (2003 paper by Peter Meyer)
• "Network of Tinkerers: A Model of Open‐Source Technology Innovation" (2007 paper by Peter Meyer)
• Wikimedia DC
• WikiConference North America 2021

🕑 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

🕑 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.

🕑 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

🕑 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

🕑 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

🕑 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

🕑 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

🕑 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.