🕑 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

🕑 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!

🕑 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)

🕑 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!

🕑 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)

🕑 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

🕑 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

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes

Clément Flipo is the co-founder, along with Pierre Boutet, of the DIY tutorial site Wikifab and the MediaWiki hosting/consulting company Dokit. He lives in Paris.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Recommerce
• Wikifab
  • Turn signal biking jacket tutorial
• Low-Tech Lab Wiki
• Behance
• Dokit
• VEForAll MediaWiki extension
  • VEForPageForm MediaWiki extension
• ImageAnnotator MediaWiki extension

🕑 25 minutes

Interesting clips from five previous episodes! Airy Magnien recounts how an ontology could have prevented a misunderstanding, Bryan Davis makes the case for librarization, Yotam HaCohen recalls impressing a government agency, Lucas Billett talks about how managing his Friends library got him on the path toward enterprise integration, Derk-Jan Hartman explains how a weekend project turned into a four-year-long effort, and more.

🕑 53 minutes

Felipe Schenone (also known as Sophivorus) is a freelance MediaWiki developer and consultant based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Sophivorus.com
• ProveIt gadget
• Wikidebate project on Wikiversity
• DebateTree extension
• Wikiversity
• Isaac Asimov on the future of education (from a 1988 interview with Bill Moyers)
• "The Fun They Had" (1951 Isaac Asimov short story)
• WikipediaExtracts extension
• Wikiar (Wiki Argentina)
• Poncho skin
• Metadata extension
• TimeMachine extension
• WikiProject WikiWidgets
• "Juego de la vida" article on Spanish-language Wikipedia (uses the "Vivarium" WikiWidget)
• "Asimov's Prophecy" short essay