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Mar 26, 2024

BTB Digestđź•‘ 21 minutes

It's a BTB Digest episode! Hear clips from five recent episodes. Steve Schneider describes his remarkably AI-centered approach to teaching, Birgit MĂĽller boasts about her team's success in improving code review, Srishti Sethi considers the usefulness of developer outreach programs, Alan Ang lists the...


Mar 12, 2024

Taavi Väänänen🕑 38 minutes

Taavi Väänänen is a site reliability engineer in the Wikimedia Cloud Services team at the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2022, when he was still just a volunteer contributor, he was named Tech Contributor of the Year by Jimmy Wales.

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Feb 27, 2024

Jeffrey Wangđź•‘ 1 hour 28 minutes

Jeffrey Wang returns to the podcast to talk about his new-ish job at Microsoft, his much older job as head of MyWikis, the upcoming MediaWiki conference, AI, and various other things.

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Feb 13, 2024

Guillaume Coulombeđź•‘ 1 hour 9 minutes

Guillaume Coulombe is the head of Procédurable, a process consulting company with a focus on open source software and open data, and an even more specific focus on MediaWiki.

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Jan 30, 2024

Kris LitsonAlan Angđź•‘ 1 hour 13 minutes

Alan Ang and Kris Litson (pictured, left to right) are both employees at Wikimedia Deutschland, the German Wikimedia chapter: Alan is a partner manager for Wikidata, while Kris is head of software communications. The two are both involved in evangelism for both Wikidata and its backend software,...