🕑 1 hour 17 minutes

Anton Krom is a longtime MediaWiki administrator and consultant.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• WikiTeq
• Wikiask
• Canasta
• Anton on Upwork

🕑 1 hour 44 minutes

Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikimedia Portugal
  • Timeline of founding
• Cape Verdean Creole ("kea") translation statistics
• Unicode CLDR Project
• "Geeks and Nerds" xkcd comic
• tldr pages application
  • Community roles document
• Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund guidebook
• Emma Irwin and [Microsoft's] FOSS Fund Program (Sustain OSS podcast)
• GitHub Accelerator
• GiveDirectly Wikipedia article
• The Giving Pledge Wikipedia article
• Open Collective Foundation
• Toolforge abandoned tool policy
• Wikimate MediaWiki API wrapper
• "Non-Hierarchical Management", Aaron Swartz, 2009
• Guido van Rossum on stepping down as Python's BDFL (YouTube video)
• DoOcracy (CommunityWiki)
• Teal organisation Wikipedia article
• Sortition Wikipedia article

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes

Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ariel Gutman, 2018
• Google.org fellowship announcement, April 2022
• Demo of a Scribunto-based templatic NLG system (video)
  • Rendering of curated Abstract Content
  • Source data for rendering
• "Ariel's goodbye letter", December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation, December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation - Answer, December 2022
• Grammatical Framework
• Functional programming Wikipedia article
• "One Ring, or a thousand flowers?" - essay by Denny Vrandečić, November 2022

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes

Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC)
• Open Semantic Lab on GitHub
• "Robotic sense of touch enabled by dielectric elastomer sensors and machine learning" (video about research project), YouTube
• OpenSemanticLab MediaWiki extension
• "OpenSemanticLab - SMW for Science and R&D" talk by Simon at SMWCon 2022, YouTube
• Multi-Content Revisions in MediaWiki
• JSON Editor tool

🕑 22 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong describes the difficulties in running a video game wiki, William Beutler ponders whether people should donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, and more!

🕑 48 minutes

It's the 2022 holiday special! Featuring an all-star guest panel (Daisy Chen, Richard Knipel, Trevor Parscal and Denny Vrandečić) weighing in on the current Wikimedia sound logo competition. Hear their informed opinions! And if that wasn't enough, you can then listen to Lex Sulzer reminisce about jumping into snowy lakes.

🕑 36 minutes

Nathan Brewer is the archival and digital content manager at the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) History Center. He manages the IEEE's Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• IEEE Wikipedia article
• Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW)
• ETHW Innovation Map
• ETHW Timeline
• IEEE Milestones Wiki
• List of IEEE Milestones
  • Public Demonstration of Online Systems and Personal Computing, 1968 ("Mother of All Demos")
  • Milestones selfies

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes

Eric Gardner is a senior software engineer on the Design Systems team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been heavily involved in the introduction of the Vue.js library into MediaWiki, and the creation of the related Codex library.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Eric Gardner WMF page
  • Eric's homepage
• WMF Design Systems Team
• Jekyll Wikipedia article
• 11ty (Eleventy) JS library
• RFC: Adopt a modern JavaScript framework for use with MediaWiki (2019)
• "Second-guessing the modern web" (Tom MacWright blog post)
• "Islands Architecture" (Jason Miller blog post)
• Astro web framework
• Wikimedia Commons Media Search 
• Codex JS library
  • Codex documentation

🕑 1 hour 24 minutes

William Beutler is the founder and president of the creative agency Beutler Ink, which, among other services, assists clients with their presence on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Previously, he ran the longtime blog The Wikipedian, and he has co-hosted several film podcasts.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Beutler Ink
• William Beutler's personal Wikipedia account
• William's paid editing Wikipedia account
• Enter the Void podcast
  • Primer episode
  • Upstream Color episode
• The Wikipedian blog
  • "Year in Review" category
  • "Montgomerology" category
• "Wikipedia has Cancer" (essay by Guy Macon)
• Wikipedia and the Communications Professional: A primer
• "comprised of" (essay by Giraffedata)

🕑 55 minutes

Jacqueline Wong is a software developer who, in her free time, helps to host and maintain various video game-related wikis.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Another Eden Wiki
  • Another Eden Wiki:Discussion on Potential Fork
• "The online ad market is in decline and it’s dragging down tech giants with it" (CNN article, July 2022)
• Tears of Themis Wiki
• Dragalia Lost Wiki
• Mr. Love Wiki
• NIWA - Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance