Sep 14, 2021
🕑 24 minutes
It's another BTB Digest! Robert Heine lays out his data structures, Nischay Nahata discusses his approach to in-wiki emailing, Ilana Fried talks about new features on Wikisource, Peter Meyer wishes for a general U.S. government wiki, Daisy Chen discusses WMF user research, and...
Aug 31, 2021
🕑 1 hour 3 minutes
Bill Pirkle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering Team at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Platform Engineering Team
- API Platform initiative
- "Add an image" feature
- Apache Kafka Wikipedia...
Aug 17, 2021
🕑 53 minutes
Igor Absorto is a freelance developer and consultant, with a focus on MediaWiki.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Igor Absorto homepage
- Tor Wikipedia article
- Aran Dunkley user page on mediawiki.org (includes list of extensions)
Aug 3, 2021
🕑 47 minutes
Daisy Chen is a senior UX (user experience) researcher at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has been at the WMF since 2012.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Daisy Chen user page on mediawiki.org
- User experience Wikipedia article
- Wikimedia research/Usability...
Jul 20, 2021
🕑 1 hour 12 minutes
Peter Meyer is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Wikimedia DC chapter. He is also one of the organizers of the upcoming WikiConference North America 2021.
Links for some of the topics discussed: