🕑 53 minutes

Sarah Rodlund (left) and Alexandra Paskulin (right) are both technical writers at the Wikimedia Foundation. Sarah is in the Developer Advocacy group while Alex is in the Core Platform Team. Sarah additionally helps to run some of the WMF's outward communication, such as the Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Working with MediaWiki (by Yaron; new version just released)
• Documentation page on mediawiki.org
• Guide for new technical writers on mediawiki.org
• Wikimedia technical documentation: friends of the docs (working group)
• "Any friend of the docs is a friend of mine: Cultivating a community of documentation advocates" (2019 Write the Docs talk by Heather Stenson)
• "Fixing The Docs is a Group Effort" (2020 blog post by Sarah Rodlund and Srishti Sethi)
• "Documenting Wikimedia Technical Projects" (2019 Wikimedia Tech Talk by Sarah Rodlund)
• Google Season of Docs at mediawiki.org

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Will Kavanagh, also known as MisterWoodhouse, is the Global Community Lead for the company Fandom, previously known as Wikia. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Community Manager for Gamepedia.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• "Can 'World of Warcraft' Game Skills Help Land a Job?" - Wall Street Journal article, August 12, 2014
• "People are using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference calls" - Rock Paper Shotgun article, May 19, 2020
• Animal Crossing Wikipedia article
• Fallout 76 Wikipedia article
• "Fandom Acquires Curse Media, Gamepedia and D&D Beyond From Twitch", GameRevolution article, December 14, 2018
• MisterWoodhouse blog, Fandom
  • "Unified Community Platform: The Vision, Purpose, and Process", MisterWoodhouse blog, February 20, 2020
• Help:Message Wall, Fandom Community Central
• Hey Fandom! AMA with Ben Schwartz, May 20, 2020
• Extensions by Wikia, Inc. category on mediawiki.org

🕑 22 minutes

Talking with the "most people don't know English" guy in Hebrew. No politics, (mostly) no tech stuff, just some Hebrew, if that's your thing.

🕑 1 hour 42 minutes

Amir Aharoni is a strategist in the Product department in the Language team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been working at the WMF since 2011.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• WikiJabber podcast episode with Amir, October 2017
• "Interview with Wikimedia’s Amir Aharoni", Wikimedia blog, October 2011
• Languages of Africa Wikipedia article
• Content Translation tool
• "Let's completely change how wiki links work" (Wikimania 2019 talk by Amir)
• Wikilambda proposal
• Global templates proposal

🕑 1 hour 17 minutes

Duncan Crane is a risk advisor for the UK's Financial Conduct Authority. He is also the main developer of the TinyMCE MediaWiki extension.

Links for some the topics discussed:

• Financial Conduct Authority Wikipedia article
• "US States Need COBOL Programmers to Help Them Handle Aging Systems", PC Magazine, April 10, 2020
• TinyMCE MediaWiki extension
• TinyMCE JavaScript library
• BlueSpice VisualEditor extension
• Phoenix Marine Model Club wiki

🕑 29 minutes

Highlights from five recent episodes. Gergő Tisza analyzes threats to developer productivity, Richard Evans reveals how he created a file directory within MediaWiki, Trevor Parscal explains why "not invented here" gets a bad rap, Andrew Kuntz and Valerio Pelliccioni talk about the popularity of their music wiki, Erik Bernhardson describes how to search in a language with no spaces, and more!

🕑 50 minutes

Evita Hollis is a Technical Project Manager at General Electric, where she manages the GE Wiki. Before GE, she managed the wiki at ConocoPhillips. (Both MediaWiki-based.) She is also the treasurer of the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• EMWCon Spring 2020
• General Electric Wikipedia page
• ConocoPhillips Wikipedia page
• "General Electric's Approach to Putting Knowledge Into Context Using MediaWiki" (Evita Hollis talk at EMWCon Spring 2019, YouTube)
• MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes

Ad Strack van Schijndel is the founder and CEO of the Dutch MediaWiki consulting company Wikibase Solutions.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikibase Solutions
• Capgemini Wikipedia article
• Extensions by Wikibase Solutions category on mediawiki.org
• "SimpleGov" (presentation by Ad at EMWCon 2018, includes the WSForm extension)

🕑 1 hour 26 minutes

Erik Bernhardson is the tech lead for the Search Platform team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked for the WMF since 2013.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikimedia Search Platform team
• WMF Knowledge Engine Wikipedia article
• StructuredDiscussions extension (formerly Flow)
• CirrusSearch extension
• Elastica extension
• Apache Lucene Wikipedia article
• Scriptio continua (writing without spaces)
• "Search company Elastic nearly doubles on first trading day", CNBC, October 5, 2018
• "Testing Search" page
• Learning to rank Wikipedia article
• MjoLniR
• ElasticSearch Learning to Rank plugin

🕑 44 minutes

Andrew Kuntz and Valerio Pelliccioni have run the wiki Traditional Tune Archive since 2010, with Andrew handling most of the content and Valerio handling the technical aspects.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Fiddler magazine "Fiddle Tune History" column, May 2012 (Andrew Kuntz)
• Irish traditional music session Wikipedia article
• Traditional Tune Archive search query form
• abcjs JavaScript library
• Sample tune page and annotation page