🕑 53 minutes

Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson (left to right) are the founder and lead developer, respectively, of the site Protoball, a wiki about the prehistory and early history of baseball.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Protoball
• "Doubleday myth" Wikipedia article
• List of Diggers
• Enhanced search page

🕑 1 hour 22 minutes

Jake Orlowitz is the lead of the management consulting company WikiBlueprint. Before founding WikiBlueprint, he worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, where his projects included The Wikipedia Library and The Wikipedia Adventure. He has been open about his former struggles with mental health, and Wikipedia's role in helping him overcome them. He can be reached at jorlowitzATgmailDOTcom.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Jake Orlowitz homepage
• "How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet" (Jake's chapter of Wikipedia@20, 2019)
• Welcome to the Circle: the Mental Health Book (Jake Orlowitz, 2019)
• The Wikipedia Library
  • Page on Wikipedia
• WikiBlueprint
• The Wikipedia Adventure
• GuidedTour MediaWiki extension
• "The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users" (2017 conference paper, Jake Orlowitz et al.)

🕑 1 hour 7 minutes

Brian Wolff is back on the program - he was a longtime member of the Security team at the Wikimedia Foundation, then worked at Asana, and is now temporarily unemployed. He is still thankfully involved with MediaWiki as a volunteer developer.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Asana Wikipedia article
• Abstract Wikipedia Wikipedia article
• Filecoin Wikipedia article
• "Blockchain: A game changer for audit processes" (Deloitte article)
• Vector 2022 MediaWiki skin
• Code review statistics for core MediaWiki

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes

Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman are both developers in the Abstract Wikipedia group at the Wikimedia Foundation; Adam is the director of engineering, while Julia is a senior software engineer.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Abstract Wikipedia page on Meta-Wiki
• Wikifunctions Wikipedia article
• WikiLambda MediaWiki extension
• Not Wikilambda - Wikifunctions test site
• Abstract Wikipedia natural language generation proposal by Ariel Gutman
• July 2021 mailing list post by Dan Brickley about Cyc, the Semantic Web and Wikidata

🕑 30 minutes

It's another BTB Digest episode! Mike Cariaso explains why you should use SQLite, Tyler Cipriani talks about teaching deployment to volunteers, Dror Snir-Haim compares translation options, Alex Hollender defends sticky headers, Kunal Mehta criticizes Bitcoin miners, and more!

🕑 1 hour 38 minutes

Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Lionel Scheepmans page on Meta-Wiki
• Imagine un monde ("Imagine a world") - Lionel's PhD thesis
  • PDF version
• Lionel's 2022 WMF elections candidacy page
• Rainbow Gathering Wikipedia article
• Universal basic income Wikipedia article

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early American Landscape Design.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• History of Early American Landscape Design
• National Gallery of Art Wikipedia article
• Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
• Keywords in American Landscape Design by Therese O'Malley
• HEALD Image Collection page
• HEALD People category
• National Gallery of Art GitHub repository
  • StickyTOC MediaWiki extension
  • Dates page package
  • Geolocation page package
• HEALD Fence page
• HEALD sample RDF export

🕑 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