
Episode 113: Matthew Westerby
05/24/22 • 71 min
🕑 1 hour 11 minutes
Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early American Landscape Design.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- History of Early American Landscape Design
- National Gallery of Art Wikipedia article
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
- Keywords in American Landscape Design by Therese O'Malley
- HEALD Image Collection page
- HEALD People category
- National Gallery of Art GitHub repository
- StickyTOC MediaWiki extension
- Dates page package
- Geolocation page package
- HEALD Fence page
- HEALD sample RDF export
🕑 1 hour 11 minutes
Matthew Westerby is the Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate for Digital Projects at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a national art museum of the United States. He has been heavily involved in the creation of the wiki History of Early American Landscape Design.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- History of Early American Landscape Design
- National Gallery of Art Wikipedia article
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
- Keywords in American Landscape Design by Therese O'Malley
- HEALD Image Collection page
- HEALD People category
- National Gallery of Art GitHub repository
- StickyTOC MediaWiki extension
- Dates page package
- Geolocation page package
- HEALD Fence page
- HEALD sample RDF export
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Episode 112: Kunal Mehta
🕑 57 minutes
Kunal Mehta is back for a second appearance! Last time he was here, he was working for the Wikimedia Foundation; but now he is a Senior Software Engineer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Though he is still a volunteer MediaWiki developer.)
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- SecureDrop Wikipedia article
- XKCD "free speech" comic
- Mastodon Wikipedia article
- "Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million" (The Verge 2021 article)
- Wikimedia RfC: Stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
- "How DevOps Sites Are Battling Cryptocurrency Miners" (The New Stack 2021 article)
- Kunal's email on "Uplifting the multimedia stack" mailing list thread
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Episode 114: Lionel Scheepmans
🕑 1 hour 38 minutes
Lionel Scheepmans is a co-founder of the Wikimedia Belgium chapter, an open source and open knowledge activist, and a PhD student at the University of Louvain. He is also currently running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Lionel Scheepmans page on Meta-Wiki
- Imagine un monde ("Imagine a world") - Lionel's PhD thesis
- Lionel's 2022 WMF elections candidacy page
- Rainbow Gathering Wikipedia article
- Universal basic income Wikipedia article
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