Sep 13, 2022
🕑 1 hour 9 minutes
It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Matthew Westerby explains the challenges of storing dates, Lionel Scheepmans extols Wikiversity, Adam Baso and Julia Kieserman ponder the future of Wikipedia in a mechanized world, Brian Wolff shares his thoughts on Asana, and Jake Orlowitz...
Aug 30, 2022
🕑 1 hour 9 minutes
Cindy Cicalese is a principal engineer for the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the general chair for the upcoming Semantic MediaWiki Conference, to be held October 26-28 in Breda, the Netherlands. She was the first-ever guest on this program, and now she's back...
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...