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...
Jun 7, 2022
🕑 1 hour 38 minutes
Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
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May 24, 2022
🕑 1 hour 11 minutes
Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early...
May 10, 2022
🕑 57 minutes
Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.)
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Apr 26, 2022
🕑 2 hours 18 minutes
Alex Hollender is a product designer on the Reading Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been with the WMF since 2018.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Create Build Destroy (fashion label)
- AltSchool Wikipedia article
- VideoWiki (now-archived MediaWiki extension)