May 6, 2025
🕑 1 hour 21
minutes
Luca Mauri is an IT manager who in his free time runs the Italian-language Star Trek wiki WikiTrek - which in turn gets much of its data from another wiki, DataTrek, which runs on MediaWiki in conjunction with Wikibase.
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Apr 25, 2025
🕑 1 hour 21
minutes
Cindy Cicalese is a principal engineer for the Developer Experience Group at the Wikimedia Foundation - but not for long, because she is leaving soon to go work at the startup Selfii, as their MediaWiki architect. Although not before serving as the general chair for the upcoming MediaWiki Users...
Apr 8, 2025
🕑 2 hours 6
minutes
Denny Vrandečić is the Head of Special Projects at the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as a visiting professor at King's College London. He is the is main creator of the Wikimedia sites Wikidata and Wikifunctions and co-creator of the MediaWiki extension Semantic MediaWiki; he also leads the...
Mar 25, 2025
🕑 1 hour 25
minutes
Ward Cunningham is the inventor of wikis (although he prefers to use the mass noun "wiki"), which started with his website WikiWikiWeb in 1995; by an incredible coincidence, this episode is being released on the exact 30th anniversary of the launch of WikiWikiWeb. Ward is also a computer science...
Mar 11, 2025
🕑 1 hour 39
minutes
Jonathan Lee is the director of the MediaWiki-based wiki hosting company Weird Gloop.
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