Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

🕑 1 hour 31 minutes

Ariel Gutman is a senior software engineer at Google, as well as a linguist. From May to October 2022, he was one of a group of Fellows, supported by Google.org, who assisted in the design and development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Several months after that, he co-authored an "evaluation" that was somewhat critical of the project.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic, Ariel Gutman, 2018
• Google.org fellowship announcement, April 2022
• Demo of a Scribunto-based templatic NLG system (video)
  • Rendering of curated Abstract Content
  • Source data for rendering
• "Ariel's goodbye letter", December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation, December 2022
• Abstract Wikipedia/Google.org Fellows evaluation - Answer, December 2022
• Grammatical Framework
• Functional programming Wikipedia article
• "One Ring, or a thousand flowers?" - essay by Denny Vrandečić, November 2022

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes

Simon Stier is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISC in Germany, as well as a freelance software developer and consultant. He is the developer of the MediaWiki- and Semantic MediaWiki-based Open Semantic Lab platform.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC)
• Open Semantic Lab on GitHub
• "Robotic sense of touch enabled by dielectric elastomer sensors and machine learning" (video about research project), YouTube
• OpenSemanticLab MediaWiki extension
• "OpenSemanticLab - SMW for Science and R&D" talk by Simon at SMWCon 2022, YouTube
• Multi-Content Revisions in MediaWiki
• JSON Editor tool

🕑 22 minutes

It's another BTB Digest! Hear highlights from five recent episodes. Lawrence McCray and Dave Anderson discuss some tradeoffs in data structuring, Cindy Cicalese shares developments in authentication, Marc Laporte promotes the use of structured data (in Tiki), Jacqueline Wong describes the difficulties in running a video game wiki, William Beutler ponders whether people should donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, and more!

🕑 55 minutes

Jacqueline Wong is a software developer who, in her free time, helps to host and maintain various video game-related wikis.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Another Eden Wiki
  • Another Eden Wiki:Discussion on Potential Fork
• "The online ad market is in decline and it’s dragging down tech giants with it" (CNN article, July 2022)
• Tears of Themis Wiki
• Dragalia Lost Wiki
• Mr. Love Wiki
• NIWA - Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance

🕑 30 minutes

It's another BTB Digest episode! Mike Cariaso explains why you should use SQLite, Tyler Cipriani talks about teaching deployment to volunteers, Dror Snir-Haim compares translation options, Alex Hollender defends sticky headers, Kunal Mehta criticizes Bitcoin miners, and more!