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)
Apr 12, 2022
🕑 1 hour 20 minutes
Dror Snir-Haim, or Dror Snir, also known as FreedomFighterSparrow, is the main developer of Kol-Zchut, a wiki (run by a nonprofit organization of the same name) dedicated to enumerating the rights and entitlements of citizens of Israel.
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Mar 29, 2022
🕑 29 minutes
Clips from five recent episodes: Marshall Miller talks about gamification of Wikipedia editing, Jared Olson describes the U.S. Space Force wiki, Wolfgang Fahl mentions the three Cambridges, Florian Schmidt praises weekly software upgrades, Jay Prakash wishes for more hackathons, and...
Mar 15, 2022
🕑 1 hour 13 minutes
Tyler Cipriani is the engineering manager for release engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. He has worked at the WMF since 2015.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Public Domain Day 2022
- "How we deploy code" (2021 blog post by Tyler)
- Trainsperiment week
- "Diving Into Our Deployment Data:...