Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.
- Website
- http://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com
- Description
- A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-19 18:03
- last episode published
- 2025-02-11 22:56
- publication frequency
- 15.0 days
- Contributors
- Yaron Koren
- Author
- Yaron Koren
- Owner
- yaron57@gmail.com (yaron57@gmail.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 113
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- News Technology Tech News
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-11 | 🕑 1 hour 11 minutes Selena Deckelmann has been the Chief Product and Technology Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2022. Before that, she worked for around 10 years at the Mozilla Foundation, eventually reaching the position of Senior Vice Presi... |
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| 2025-01-28 | 🕑 1 hour 27 minutes Former Wikimedia Foundation developer Trevor Parscal returns to the podcast to talk about the happy (to many) news that Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a double life sentence for having created and run the "dark web" website Silk Roa... |
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| 2025-01-15 | 🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Brian Wolff returns for a third episode! The security expert and longtime MediaWiki developer does an in-person interview to talk about his latest development projects, and Wikimedia goings-on, past and present. Links for some of th... |
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| 2024-12-31 | 🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Adam Shorland, Tom Arrow and Ollie Hyde (pictured, left to right) show up together for the final episode of 2024! Adam (username Addshore) returns for his second appearance; he has since left Wikimedia Deutschland and now works at L... |
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| 2024-12-17 | 🕑 1 hour 19 minutes Richard Knipel (username Pharos) returns, for a special holiday-esque episode! He talks about recent developments with Wikispore, the Wikimedia Movement Charter, and Wikimedia New York City; and then we listen to some freely-license... |
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| 2024-12-03 | 🕑 26 minutes It's another BTB Digest, with clips from five recent episodes! Brent Laabs recounts the abortive renaming of Miraheze, Alex Stinson considers the uniqueness of different language Wikipedias, Paul Cereghino notes the challenges of finding w... |
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| 2024-11-19 | 🕑 1 hour Stephen Harrison is a tech lawyer and journalist who has been writing about Wikipedia since 2018, including dozens of articles for the online magazine Slate as part of his Source Notes column. He is the author of the 2024 novel The Editors, wh... |
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| 2024-11-05 | 🕑 1 hour 9 minutes Bertrand Gorge is the co-founder of Triple Performance, a (currently) French-language-only wiki that holds resources for farmers. He also co-runs the company Neayi, which manages Triple Performance. Links for some of the topics discu... |
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| 2024-10-22 | 🕑 1 hour 10 minutes Asaf Bartov is the lead program officer for the Emerging Wikimedia Communities project of the Community Development Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: "Wikimania 2019 - Asaf Bartov" (episode o... |
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| 2024-10-08 | 🕑 1 hour 42 minutes Valerio Bozzolan is a software developer and Linux adminstrator as well as the president of the Italian Linux Socety, the founder and head of Wikimedians for Software Freedom, a member of the volunteer technical commission of Wikime... |
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