Aug 16, 2022
🕑 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...
Aug 2, 2022
🕑 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...
Jul 19, 2022
🕑 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...
Jul 5, 2022
🕑 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...
Jun 21, 2022
🕑 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...