A podcast about the people and ideas behind the MediaWiki software. Interviews with developers and users of MediaWiki, both for Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.) and the many uses of MediaWiki in companies, organizations, government agencies, etc.
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episode 158: Yaron Koren
???? 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.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Taavi Väänänen homepage
- Wikimedia Toolforge
- CentralAuth MediaWiki extension
- RealMe MediaWiki extension
- "Fediverse" Wikipedia article