🕑 53 minutes

Olga Vasileva is a product manager in the Readers Web Team of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Readers Web team
  • Reading/Readers (??) Web team
  • Current and past team projects
• "Technology for growth: The future of mobile editing" Wikimania presentation slides
• Advanced Mode project page
• MobileFrontend extension
• Minerva Neue/Minerva skin
• "Improving the Wikipedia desktop experience" Wikimania presentation slides
• Desktop improvements project page
  • Talk page for feedback on desktop improvements
• "Dwelling on Wikipedia: Investigating time spent by global encyclopedia readers" Wikimania presentation
• Noisage podcast

🕑 1 hour 9 minutes

Derk-Jan Hartman is a volunteer MediaWiki developer in the Netherlands. He has been doing core MediaWiki development since 2010.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• User:TheDJ on mediawiki.org
• VLC Media Player
• TimedMediaHandler MediaWiki extension
  • TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS Player
• Common.js page on English-language Wikipedia
• "Dwelling on Wikipedia" Wikimania 2019 talk
• "Characterizing Reader Behavior on Wikipedia" Wikimania 2019 talk

🕑 1 hour 16 minutes

Lucas Billett is a capital project manager at the company Ingredion. He has been using MediaWiki at his job since 2009.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Ingredion Wikipedia article
• "KMS in Industry" slideshow by Lucas
• W. Edwards Deming Wikipedia article
• Adam Smith Wikipedia article
• Adam Smith on Wikiquote (see first quote)
• Mermaid.js

🕑 6 minutes

Yotam and I talk briefly in Hebrew. No tech stuff, no politics, just some chit-chat.

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes

Yotam HaCohen is the co-founder and head of the consulting companies DoAlogue and OpenFox.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• OpenFox homepage (in Hebrew)
• DoAlogue homepage (in Hebrew)
• DoAlogue wiki (in Hebrew)
• Fennec (in Hebrew)
• The Hedgehog and the Fox Wikipedia article

🕑 19 minutes

Highlights from five recent episodes! John Lewis describes the custom software powering the wiki farm Miraheze, Lex Sulzer breaks down how he can create a working system for clients in a few hours, Andre Klapper explains the recent redesign of the MediaWiki homepage, Alex Tanchoco recounts how their wiki went from a text store to a database, and Derick Alangi talks about how he got started as a MediaWiki developer.

🕑 1 hour 10 minutes

Bryan Davis is a principal software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he heads up the Cloud Services team, and is also part of the Developer Advocacy team; both teams are part of the Technical Engagement group.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Bryan Davis homepage
• Bryan Davis MediaWiki user page
• Wikimedia Cloud Services team
• Library infrastructure for MediaWiki ("librarization" project)
• Upstream projects
• Structured logging (PSR-3 project)
• Wikimedia Technology Goals
• "Build Technical Community" goal
• Wikimedia Technical Spaces Code of Conduct
• Moving Parsoid into Core

🕑 1 hour 29 minutes

Airy Magnien is the Digital Modeling Leader at the UIC, or the International Union of Railways. He heads the project to create Ontorail, a MediaWiki-based site that is planned to serve as a global ontology/dictionary for railway-related terms. He is also the general chair of the upcoming SMWCon, or Semantic MediaWiki Conference, which will be held September 25-27 in Paris.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• International Union of Railways (UIC)
• Ontorail
• EDIFACT
• RailTopoModel
• RailLexic
• Lemon (The Lexicon Model for Ontologies)
• BuildingSMART
• Building information modeling (BIM)
• WorldCat
• HO (or H0) scale
• Rome2rio
• SMWCon Fall 2019
• OTL Spoor page on SpoorData.nl

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes

Derick Alangi is a software developer who currently works for the Wikimedia Foundation Learning & Evaluation Team. He is also a co-founder of the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group, and a member of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• IFTTT API for Wikimedia wikis
  
• Google Code-in
• Angolophone Crisis of Cameroon
• Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
• Silicon Mountain
• Wikimedia Foundation Learning & Evaluation Team
• Millionaire Success Habits
• No Excuses!

🕑 1 hour 2 minutes

Alex Tanchoco is the Manager of Advanced Technologies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where he has worked since 1986. He created the internal wiki used at MSK, Datapedia, in 2011, and has helped to run it since then.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Wikipedia article
  
• Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School
  
• "Ikigai and dimensions for a balanced life", by Alex Tanchoco
• Triumph Bonneville Bobber Wikipedia article
  
• ICD9 and ICD10
  
• Tableau Software
  
• D3 JavaScript library
  
• MSK About Herbs App
  
• 3D Printing and Makerspace at MSK
  
• REDCap Research and Data Capture