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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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- Oct 6, 20261h 11m
Episode 216: Christian Erlinger
🕑 1 hour 12 minutes Christian Erlinger is a digital librarian and GLAM consultant; he is also the general chair for the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) Fall 2026, which will be held November 11-13, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Christian Erlinger homepage MUDCon Fall 2026 KM-A (Knowledge Management Associates) WikiKult – Offene Kulturdaten (GLAM wiki enthusiasts network) NeoWiki demo wiki EpiMedDat "Dancing mania" on EpiMedDat "1374-06-21-Germany" on EpiMedDat
- Sep 22, 20261h 24m
Episode 215: Mahir Morshed
🕑 1 hour 25 minutes Dr. Mahir Morshed is a data scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in North Carolina. He is also an administrator on Wikidata and the Bengali-language Wikisource. Links for some of the topics discussed: RENCI Proto-Open Knowledge Network: FRINK Abstract Wikipedia Requests for comment/The future of Abstract Wikipedia "From Abstract Content to Concrete Text with Wikidata Lexemes" (talk by Mahir at Wikimania 2026) "Using Wikidata lexemes and items to generate text from abstract representations" (2024 paper by Mahir Morshed) Ninai statement construction system
- Sep 9, 202624 min
Episode 214: BTB Digest 34
🕑 25 minutes Highlights from five recent episodes! Sandra Fauconnier notes the irony of centralization in the Semantic Web, Ad Strack van Schijndel discusses the workings of Juggel, Daniel Dobriy extols wikis for AI, Cory Massaro praises the translation abilities of Abstract Wikipedia, Shani Evenstein Sigalov discusses the role of nonprofits in AI, and more!
- Aug 25, 20261h 31m
Episode 213: Waldir Pimenta
🕑 1 hour 32 minutes Waldir Pimenta returns to talk about the recent Wikimania, the hackathon-to-development pipeline, unionization and other topics. Wikimania 2026 team challenges Map the Gap (Wikimania hackathon team project) WISE (semantic image search for Commons) Wikinewsie Wiki Fringe (side event at Wikimania 2026) Wiki Workers United "Wikipedia:WMF Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off"
- Aug 3, 202631 min
Episode 212: Matthew Shell
🕑 1 hour 1 minute Matthew Shell is an IT project manager who is the creator of the MediaWiki-based wiki farm GoalStriving. GoalStriving is intended for personal, private wikis; it is ad-free and pledges to never sell or share any user information. Links for some of the topics discussed: GoalStriving List of personal wiki software on Wikipedia Page Exchange MediaWiki extension You can also see a video of this interview on YouTube.
- Jul 14, 20261h 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
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