Jun 11, 2019

🕑 1 hour 14 minutes

Derick Alangi is a software developer who currently works for the Wikimedia Foundation Learning & Evaluation Team. He is also a co-founder of the Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group, and a member of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• IFTTT API...

May 28, 2019

🕑 1 hour 2 minutes

Alex Tanchoco is the Manager of Advanced Technologies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where he has worked since 1986. He created the internal wiki used at MSK, Datapedia, in 2011, and has helped to run it since then.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Memorial Sloan...

May 14, 2019

🕑 1 hour 1 minute

Andre Klapper works for the Wikimedia Foundation as the official bugwrangler, as well as as a developer advocate in the Technical Engagement group. He has been involved with the Wikimedia Foundation, and MediaWiki, since 2012.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Andre Klapper user page on...

Apr 30, 2019

🕑 24 minutes

BTB Digest #5: highlights of January to March! Denny Vrandečić defends Wikibase, Megan Cutrofello resigns herself to never being done working on her wiki, Barry Grenon talks about MediaWiki as a "headless CMS", Sam Wilson has advice for Wikimedia Foundation developers, Jens Steckhans explains how he...

Apr 16, 2019

🕑 54 minutes

Lex Sulzer runs the consulting company dataspects. He has been doing MediaWiki consulting since 2015.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• dataspects
• FindAndLearn (the dataspects search system)
• FindAndLearn — Search (demo)
• Elasticsearch Wikipedia article
• dataspects repository page on Docker...