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A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWi... more
FAQs about Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast:How many episodes does Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast have?The podcast currently has 187 episodes available.
March 17, 2020Episode 56: Ad Strack van Schijndel 🕑 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) ...more1h 14minPlay
March 03, 2020Episode 55: Erik Bernhardson 🕑 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 ...more1h 27minPlay
February 18, 2020Episode 54: Andrew Kuntz and Valerio Pelliccioni 🕑 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 ...more45minPlay
February 04, 2020Episode 53: Trevor Parscal 🕑 1 hour 59 minutes Trevor Parscal is a software developer who worked at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2008 to 2017, and has worked at wikiHow since 2017. Links for some of the topics discussed: Trevor Parscal homepage Vector skin Wikipedia Usability Initiative VisualEditor extension WikiEditor extension ResourceLoader Free State Project Wikipedia article "Hayek and Wikipedia" (2007 blog post) "Why didn’t Wikipedia have an article on Donna Strickland, winner of a Nobel Prize?" (2018 WMF blog post) wikiHow Disney Vacation (satirical Reddit subreddit) FreeRoss.org Mark Zuckerberg 2018 congressional testimony Trevor Parscal - Music Western Galaxy ...more1h 59minPlay
January 21, 2020Episode 52: BTB Digest 8 🕑 27 minutes Highlights of episodes from late 2019. Olga Vasileva recommends some changes for the Wikipedia interface, Felipe Schenone plugs an extension, Clément Flipo explains his marketing approach, Jeroen De Dauw compares Semantic MediaWiki and Wikibase, Jan Höffler talks about the future of open science, and more!...more27minPlay
January 07, 2020Episode 51: Richard Evans 🕑 58 minutes Richard Evans is an electronics engineer at the NASA Glenn Research Center. He has been using MediaWiki since 2008. Links for some of the topics discussed: Glenn Research Center Wikipedia article Artemis program Wikipedia article Orion (spacecraft) Wikipedia article "Document Control With Multiple Digital Signatures Using MediaWiki+Extensions" (EMWCon presentation video) Internet of things Wikipedia article EMWCon Spring 2020 (April 1-3) ...more58minPlay
December 24, 2019Episode 50: Between the Brackets 2019 Holiday Special🕑 27 minutes It's a holiday special! Featuring reminiscences on the year (and decade), music from consultant (and guitarist) Bernhard Krabina, surprise guests, and more!...more27minPlay
December 10, 2019Episode 49: Gergő Tisza🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Gergő Tisza is a senior software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, working in the Growth team. Before that, he worked in the Multimedia and Reading Infrastructure teams. He has been with the WMF since 2013. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Growth team GrowthExperiments MediaWiki extension Multi-Content Revisions OAuth MediaWiki extension "Media Viewer—Wikimedia's emotional roller-coaster" (Wikipedia Signpost, 2014) Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 "Federated MediaWiki" discussion "JS Framework Experience Sharing" discussion "Make MediaWiki Commercially Viable" essay Enterprise MediaWiki Conference (EMWCon) ...more1h 9minPlay
November 26, 2019Episode 48: Jan Höffler 🕑 43 minutes Our first-ever live interview! Jan H. Höffler is an economist who runs ReplicationWiki, a MediaWiki-based wiki that holds information about replications and other empirical studies in the fields of social science. Links for some of the topics discussed: ReplicationWiki PsychFileDrawer.org Open Science Framework Center for Open Science ReplicationWiki statistics Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ReplicationWiki in the news and in the literature Replication crisis Wikipedia article "The Truth Wears Off" (2010 article in The New Yorker) Diederik Stapel Wikipedia article "Just Post It: The Lesson From Two Cases of Fabricated Data Detected by Statistics Alone" (2013 paper by Uri Simonsohn) Brian Wansink Wikipedia article "The Grad Student Who Never Said 'No'" (2016 Brian Wansink blog post) Testing hypotheses suggested by the data Wikipedia article (related to "HARKing") American Statistical Association statement on p-values Stanford prison experiment Wikipedia article Rosenhan experiment Wikipedia article Stanford marshmallow experiment Wikipedia article Faking Science: A True Story of Academic Fraud (free English translation of 2014 book by Diederik Stapel) "When contact changes minds" (2014 experiment): Wikipedia article, ReplicationWiki article cascad American Journal of Political Science (journal that requires replication instructions) WikiJournal proposal science-fraud.org ...more44minPlay
November 12, 2019Episode 47: Jeroen De Dauw🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Jeroen De Dauw has been doing MediaWiki-related development since 2009. He has been a core developer of Semantic MediaWiki, was one of the original developers of the Wikibase/Wikidata software, and has done work for the Wikimedia Foundation and others. He is a co-founder of the MediaWiki consulting company Professional.Wiki. Links for some of the topics discussed: Jeroen De Dauw homepage Maps extension Plans for "Distribution" extension (attempted 2010 Google Summer of Code project) Jeroen's Wikidata/Wikibase page FundraisingFrontend application Wikimedia Deutschland donations page - uses FundraisingFrontend "Implementing the Clean Architecture" - Jeroen's blog post about the design of FundraisingFrontend Jeroen's answer on Quora to a "Wikibase or Semantic MediaWiki?" question Professional.Wiki ...more1h 11minPlay
FAQs about Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast:How many episodes does Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast have?The podcast currently has 187 episodes available.