Mar 2, 2021

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes

Alexander Mashin is the administrator of the Russian wiki Traditio. He is also an SAP consultant, and has contributed to a number of MediaWiki extensions, including External Data.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Traditio (Традиция)
  • Alexander Mashin user page on Traditio

Feb 16, 2021

🕑 1 hour 11 minutes

Adam Shorland (also known as Addshore) is the Wikidata and Wikibase tech lead at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• MediaWiki-Docker-Dev
• Wikidata
• "Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata" (Wired magazine article, March 2019)
• Wikidata Walkabout
• Wikibase

Feb 2, 2021

🕑 1 hour 29 minutes

Ike Hecht is the founder and CTO of the MediaWiki consulting company WikiTeq, as well as the CTO of the MediaWiki consulting company WikiWorks. He has been doing MediaWiki consulting since 2008.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• WikiWorks
• WikiTeq
• Project Canasta
• "Extensions by WikiTeq"...

Jan 19, 2021

🕑 39 minutes

Kate Chapman is the Director of Architecture of the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2018.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• OpenStreetMap Wikipedia article
• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
• Cadasta Foundation
• Wikimedia Architecture Team
• "Proposal for a Technical Decision...

Jan 5, 2021

🕑 26 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Nikki Nikkhoui plugs a book, Vivian Epiney talks about assigning wiki editing as homework, Richard Heigl and Markus Glaser market BlueSpice, Grant Ingersoll defends Wikimedia Foundation technical strategy, Laurent Alquier discusses data...