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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.
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- 2 weeks ago1h 33m
Episode 211: Shani Evenstein Sigalov
🕑 1 hour 34 minutes Dr. Shani Evenstein Sigalov is an educator, researcher, and long-standing Open Knowledge advocate, working at the intersection of education, technology, innovation and openness. She is the founder of the AI Bridges project at the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London. She is also a former member and vice chair of the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Digital Humanities Research Hub AI-BRIDGES "World model (artificial intelligence)" Wikipedia article
- Jun 30, 20261h 30m
Episode 210: Cory Massaro
🕑 1 hour 31 minutes Cory Massaro is a staff software engineer on the Abstract Wikipedia team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Cory Massaro website Abstract Wikipedia Wikifunctions WikiLambda MediaWiki extension "Wikilambda the Ultimate" (2026 paper by Michael Falk) We Can Be Luddites (Cory Massaro Substack account) "The Great Conversation: Complicated Translations of The Odyssey" (Benjamin LaBadie, February 2024)
- Jun 2, 20261h 28m
Episode 209: Daniel Dobriy
🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Daniel Dobriy is the founder and managing director of the company Dobriy AI. He is also a researcher at WU Vienna University and Austria's Bilateral AI Cluster of Excellence. Links for some of the topics discussed: Dobriy AI Daniel Dobriy homepage Agentic Data Catalogue Web of Data Catalogue Search of Engine for the Web of Data WikiApiary ECHOLOT NeoWiki MediaWiki extension GraphHub
- May 20, 202626 min
Episode 208: BTB Digest 33
🕑 27 minutes Clips from five recent episodes! Liam Wyatt considers LLMs as a vessel for Wikipedia content; Steve Shattuck weighs Cargo against Semantic MediaWiki; Paul Vodrazka lays out how he became an AI coder; Noam Cohen defends Wikipedia from charges of bias; Wandji Collins recounts becoming a MediaWiki volunteer; and more!
- May 5, 20261h 34m
Episode 207: Ad Strack van Schijndel
🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Ad Strack van Schijndel is the founder and CEO of Juggel, a Dutch company whose product, also named Juggel, is an AI-centered MediaWiki distribution. Before founding Juggel, he was the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki-based consulting company Wikibase Solutions. Links for some of the topics discussed: Juggel Wikibase Solutions Juggel AI "MediaWiki for lazy people" - talk by Ad at MUDCon spring 2026 NeoWiki MediaWiki extension
- Apr 21, 20261h 2m
Episode 206: Sandra Fauconnier
🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Sandra Fauconnier is an art historian by training who works on digital projects in the cultural sector. She has worked at different times for Wikimedia Nederland, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikimedia Sverige. Links for some of the topics discussed: Sandra Fauconnier user page on Meta-Wiki Sandra Fauconnier user page on Wikidata Sandra Fauconnier user page on MediaWiki Commons Structured Data on Commons Modeling works on Commons without a Wikidata item Sandra reading from the "Paul Otlet" article for WikiReadings
- Apr 9, 202651 min
Episode 205: Wandji Collins
🕑 52 minutes Wandji Collins is a software engineer and engineering manager at Tech Chantier, as well as a volunteer MediaWiki developer. Links for some of the topics discussed: Tech Chantier Between the Brackets Episode 36: Derick Alangi Wiki Mentor Africa Lexicographical data on Wikidata Page Forms MediaWiki extension
- Mar 24, 20261h 14m
Episode 204: Noam Cohen
🕑 1 hour 15 minutes Noam Cohen is a journalist and writer who has written extensively about Wikipedia since 2007 for publications including The New York Times and Wired. He is the author of the 2017 book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball, which was just released in paperback form with a new introduction by the author. You can also see this interview in video form, on YouTube. Links for some of the topics discussed: The Know-It-Alls website Noam Cohen's Wikipedia user page "Wikipedia:Noam Cohen" page (includes links to Noam's articles about Wikipedia)
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