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The latest "BTB Digest" of Between the Brackets features clips from episodes with Liam Wyatt (@Wittylama), Steve Shattuck, Paul Vodrazka, Noam Cohen (@noamcohen) and Wandji Collins. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-208-bt…

A new Signpost is out! ▸ Wikinews shuts down after 21 years: A look back ▸ Indonesia lifts auth domain block after WMF agrees to register as "administrative formality" ▸ A closer look at Wikipedia's traffic drop: Which topic areas declined most? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Ad Strack van Schijndel, founder of MediaWiki-based startup Juggel. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-207-ad…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Sandra Fauconnier (@sanseveria), art historian and longtime Wikimedian. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-206-sa…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with volunteer MediaWiki developer Wandji Collins. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-205-wa…

Big implications for this.

In the new Signpost: ▸ Wikinews to be shut down ▸ Press applauds prohibition of AI in Wikipedia articles ▸ How editors deal with whitewashing of sexual abuse claims: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…

Introduction à l’évaluation automatique de la qualité de #Wikipédia youtube.com/watch?v=BgTyNq…

"The purpose of our talk is to lower your trust in mankind, which is not the mission of the Wikimedia project." - Giuseppe Lavagato on AI crawlers #MUDCon

Third and final day of the MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference in Salt Lake City! Livestream here: youtube.com/live/h3bZtGXBX…

Cindy Cicalese talking about Canasta! #MUDCon

MUDCon livestream here: youtube.com/live/AxOmVzXb1…

Keynote talk by Jon Morrey of FamilySearcy, about AI! #MUDcon

Interesting heuristic for determining AI bots from @weirdgloop's Jonathan Lee: if you have an extension like Popups, look for users that don't make Popups' API requests. #MUDCon

"I think of the set of MediaWiki wikis not so much as a collection of wikis as a massive, sprawling federation of content." - James Hare #MUDCon

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference (MUDCon) Spring 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah has begun! Livestream at youtube.com/live/_KSXOK_8y…

Regular audio episode: betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-204-no… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=txns6T…

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with journalist and writer Noam Cohen (@noamcohen), author of "The Know-It-Alls", about tech founders including Jimmy Wales, which was just released in paperback. Links for the audio and video below.

New episode of MediaWiki podcast Between the Brackets: an interview with Paul Vodrazka, machinist and (AI-based) MediaWiki developer. betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-203-pa…