Dec 6, 2023

🕑 55 minutes

Birgit Müller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was Director of Technical Engagement. From 2014 to 2019, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Birgit's user page on mediawiki.org

Nov 21, 2023

🕑 1 hour 52 minutes

Steve Schneider is a professor of information design at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly). He currently teaches a class, Digital Media and Information in Society, whose coursework is managed via Wikiversity and Wiki Edu, and also involves the use of ChatGPT by both...

Nov 8, 2023

🕑 1 hour 6 minutes

Alissa Stern founded the organization BASAbali (later renamed BASAibu) in 2011, and the BASAbali Wiki in 2014. The BASAbali Wiki was originally intended to serve only as a dictionary for the Balinese language, but it has since grown to become a general communication hub for the Balinese...

Oct 24, 2023

🕑 1 hour 4 minutes

Ilias Sarantopoulos is a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been at the WMF since 2022.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikimedia Foundation Machine Learning team
• WMF machine learning modernization plan
• WMF machine learning model cards

Sep 26, 2023

🕑 1 hour 23 minutes

Tricia Burmeister is a senior technical writer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and part of the (relatively new) WMF Technical Documentation Team.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team
• Wikitech wiki main page restructuring diff
  • Phabricator ticket that...