Apr 13, 2021

🕑 1 hour 39 minutes

Liam Wyatt is a community liaison for the new Wikimedia Enterprise project, as well as a program officer for the WikiCite initiative. He was the first-ever Wikipedian in Residence, in 2010 at the British Museum, and organized the first three GLAM-Wiki conferences. He was also the co-host of the...

Mar 30, 2021

🕑 34 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Clips from five recent episodes. Larry Sanger pitches the encyclosphere, Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner consider oral citations, Kate Chapman talks about decision-making, Ike Hecht praises small consulting companies, Adam Shorland discusses cleaning up Wikidata, and...

Mar 16, 2021

🕑 1 hour 5 minutes

Jeffrey Wang is the founder and CEO of the MediaWiki hosting site MyWikis.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• MyWikis
• "An entrepreneur since age 11, Jeffrey Wang looks to combine business and tech after graduating from UNT TAMS", Denton Record-Chronicle, 2018
• MyWikis GitHub account

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