🕑 57 minutes

Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.)

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Freedom of the Press Foundation
  • Freedom of the Press Foundation > Kunal Mehta
  • Freedom of the Press Foundation > Erik Moeller
• SecureDrop Wikipedia article
• XKCD "free speech" comic
• Mastodon Wikipedia article
• "Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million" (The Verge 2021 article)
  • The NFT artwork
• Wikimedia RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
• "How DevOps Sites Are Battling Cryptocurrency Miners" (The New Stack 2021 article)
• Kunal's email on "Uplifting the multimedia stack" mailing list thread

🕑 2 hours 18 minutes

Alex Hollender is a product designer on the Reading Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been with the WMF since 2018.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Create Build Destroy (fashion label)
• AltSchool Wikipedia article
• VideoWiki (now-archived MediaWiki extension)
• Desktop Improvements project
  • Desktop Improvements talk page (comments welcome!)
• Vector 2022 skin
• "Blue whale" article on Vector skin upcoming features demo site
• The Humane Interface (UI book by Jef Raskin)
• Proposal for changing logo of MediaWiki, 2020/Round 1
• Sharon Park Wikipedia Identity System (2019)

🕑 1 hour 20 minutes

Dror Snir-Haim, or Dror Snir, also known as FreedomFighterSparrow, is the main developer of Kol-Zchut, a wiki (run by a nonprofit organization of the same name) dedicated to enumerating the rights and entitlements of citizens of Israel.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Kol Zchut (כל-זכות)
  • English-language site
  • Arabic-language site
• Kolbotek Wikipedia article
• Kol Zchut Cargo tables
• Kol Zchut GitHub repository
  • ArticleRanking MediaWiki extension

🕑 29 minutes

Clips from five recent episodes: Marshall Miller talks about gamification of Wikipedia editing, Jared Olson describes the U.S. Space Force wiki, Wolfgang Fahl mentions the three Cambridges, Florian Schmidt praises weekly software upgrades, Jay Prakash wishes for more hackathons, and more!

🕑 1 hour 13 minutes

Tyler Cipriani is the engineering manager for release engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked at the WMF since 2015.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Public Domain Day 2022
• "How we deploy code" (2021 blog post by Tyler)
• Trainsperiment week
• "Diving Into Our Deployment Data: Deploy trainbows; not painbows" (2021 blog post by Tyler)
• Release engineering yak shaving
• Deployment training
• GitLab page on mediawiki.org
  • Gerrit to GitLab
• Phorge (Phabricator fork)
• "Job Interviews By Zombies" (2022 blog post by Tyler)
• Release Engineering job opening
• Tyler Cipriani > Brewing

🕑 1 hour 33 minutes

Mike Cariaso is back, as the first-ever repeat guest on Between the Brackets! Mike is the co-creator (with Greg Lennon) of the wiki SNPedia, and the associated software Promethease, which matches an individual human genome sequence against the data in SNPedia. In 2019, Mike and Greg sold SNPedia and Promethease to the Israeli genealogy company MyHeritage.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• SNPedia
  • SNPedia Wikipedia article
• "MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia" (2019 press release)
• Cost per human genome graph
• MediaWiki SQLite support
• Rust (programming language) Wikipedia article
• Raku (programming language) Wikipedia article
• G-code Wikipedia article
• Fsn (file manager) Wikipedia article

🕑 1 hour 24 minutes

Jay Prakash is the co-founder of both the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group and Indic-TechCom. At the 2021 Wikimania, he was named one of five Wikimedians of the Year, in the category of "Tech Innovator". He is also a college student and part-time MediaWiki consultant.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• "Meet Jay Prakash: Wikimedian of the Year 2021 Tech Innovator winner" (2012 Wikimedia Foundation blog post)
• Jay's 2019 Google Summer of Code project
• CountDownClock MediaWiki extension
• Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
• Indic-TechCom
• Indic-OCR
• "Uplifting the multimedia stack" (wikitech-l mailing list thread)

🕑 1 hour 53 minutes

Florian Schmidt has been a volunteer MediaWiki developer since 2014, and has run the wiki Android Wiki since 2012.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• MobileFrontend extension
• Android Wiki
  • English-language version
• Android operating system Wikipedia article
• AcceleratedMobilePages extension
• CookieWarning extension

🕑 1 hour 35 minutes

Wolfgang Fahl is the director and founder of the software training and consulting company BITPlan, and a research assistant at RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) in Germany.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• BITPlan
• BITPlan Wiki
• SMWCon list of attendees
• Test-driven development
• ConfIDent
• Openresearch
• ConferenceCorpus project
• WikiCFP
• geograpy
• Cynefin framework
• Blazegraph
• wikidata-taxonomy tool
• SPARQL
• Gremlin query language

🕑 30 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Clips from Between the Brackets episodes from last year, including: Igor Absorto talking about open source development, Bill Pirkle explaining the WMF's API Platform initiative; Ziko van Dijk defining "wiki"; Bryan Hilderbrand learning lessons from Dilbert; and Jonathan Wilson praising the benefits of DIY.