🕑 2 hours Alex Stinson is Lead Program Strategist for the Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team WikiProjects Campaign PetScan List-Building Tool Research on Language-Agnostic Topic Classification Esperanza (2005-2006 project on Wikipedia) CampaignEvents MediaWiki exte…

AUDIO ONLY VERSION. In this Epic sized season 2 finale, Alex and Jacob are joined by a stellar cast of guests talking about all things Unreal Engine! Links: Cory Strassburger: / corystrassburger Matt Workman: / mattworkman Cory Williams: / creator-cory-williams Alexis Centeno: / alexis-centeno-31b07579 Kat Craig: / katacraig Ruty Rutenberg: / rutyr…

AUDIO ONLY VERSION. In this Epic sized season 2 finale, Alex and Jacob are joined by a stellar cast of guests talking about all things Unreal Engine! I Wish I Learned This Sooner: • I Wish I Learned This Sooner! | Unrea... Unreal Games Fellowship: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/bl... Unreal Fest Seattle: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ev...…

🕑 1 hour 35 minutes Brent Laabs (user name Labster) is chair of the board and acting president of the WikiTide Foundation, the nonprofit foundation that runs the wiki farm Miraheze. Links for some of the topics discussed: Miraheze WikiTide Foundation Between the Brackets Episode 31: John Lewis All The Tropes wiki Miraheze-WikiTide merger FAQ Reques…

Original Stream https://x.com/marionawfal/status/1814013396523848056?s=46

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Due to a VisionOS 2.0 FaceTime bug this episode of the podcast will be audio only. https://x.com/ibrews/status/1800348999796343240?s=46 Body of Mine, available now! https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/7712124182163903/?utm_source=oculus&utm_medium=share https://twitter.com/cosmoscharf https://www.spacetime.directory/ https://www.magicbeansnewsle…

Alex and guest host Alan Scott talk with John Martin from Reallusion. https://www.reallusion.com/ https://www.reallusion.com/pitch-produce/ https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/live-link/unreal-engine/ https://www.reallusion.com/character-creator/ https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/ https://www.reallusion.com/character-creator/cc-ue-contorl-rig/ https:…

WebXR Pixel Streaming Test: https://youtu.be/6uoo9r0rpSs?si=ATmmO3KZpJekvbZv Unreal Fest: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/unreal-fest-2024-global-lineup What If? for Apple Vision Pro https://www.marvel.com/articles/culture-lifestyle/marvel-studios-ilm-immersive-what-if-an-immersive-story-apple-vision-pro-exclusive…

Robert Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertJALA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-aldridge-239833161 NY Hackathon project: https://devpost.com/software/micro-worlds https://devpost.com/software/performy Fest submissions and more info: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/unreal-fest-2024-global-lineup UE 5.4 release notes: https://de…

🕑 1 hour 3 minutes Viktor Schelling is the Senior Principal MediaWiki Developer at Pegasystems. Links for some of the topics discussed: Pegasystems Wikipedia article Wikibase Solutions FlexForm MediaWiki extension Open CSPBy Yaron Koren

🕑 1 hour 28 minutes Dr. Moritz Schubotz (developer username Physikerwelt) is head of research at the mathematics department at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. He is the author or co-author of the MediaWiki extensions Math and MathSearch, and the Mathoid application, among others. Links for some of the topics discus…

Winbush: Hire Him for the Black Panther Open World Game! https://youtube.com/@jonathanwinbush http://instagram.com/jonathanwinbush https://twitter.com/jonathanwinbush Shoutouts: https://youtube.com/@LoganPinney https://youtube.com/@eyedesyn https://youtube.com/@RocketLasso https://gdcvault.com/play/1034749/Optimizing-Game-Development-Workflows-with…

Apple Vision Pro on Unreal progress: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexcoulombe_and-just-like-that-we-are-now-able-activi[…]315119779841-pu5M Vision Pro guide stuff: https://twitter.com/iBrews/status/1775977560918122772 GTC: https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/ Ana Carolina Pereira: https://www.instagram.com/anacarolina_art/ Ringling VR: https://www.ringli…

🕑 1 hour 43 minutes Megan Cutrofello, better known as River, returns to the podcast. She is a freelance wiki developer who has worked with Gamepedia, Fandom and wiki.gg, among others. Links for some of the topics discussed: wiki.gg "What's going on with gaming communities moving from Fandom to Wiki.gg?" (2023 Reddit thread) River Writes blog The Se…

State of Unreal Recap: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/all-the-big-news-from-the-state-of-unreal-at-gdc-24 JJ / 404 Creative: https://twitter.com/yojj47 https://twitter.com/404FNC https://www.404creative.gg/ Islands mentioned: https://fortnite.com/@404creative/9012-4443-7390 https://fortnite.com/@404creative/4709-8546-5558 GDC Talk: Achievi…

🕑 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 Müller boasts about her team's success in improving code review, Srishti Sethi considers the usefulness of developer outreach programs, Alan Ang lists the steps in getting a knowledge base o…

Alex talks with the creators of "The Basement" from Sentient Art. Links: https://github.com/SentientArt/TheBasement https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycarmona1991

Fixed audio version. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/we-are-updating-unreal-engine-twinmotion-and-realitycapture-pricing-in-late-apri and more. https://twitter.com/iBrews/status/1766532511964844243

🕑 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 exte…

Alex talks with special guest Leo Badi from Arcane Mirage about Pixel Streaming along with demos, updates on all things Unreal and Apple Vison Pro. Arcane Mirage: https://www.arcanemirage.com/ Four Seasons Showroom: https://youtu.be/6la2yieiCG0?si=kcyQoS2UYhQKtzfl Free Training for UE5.3: https://www.alexcoulombepresents.com…

🕑 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. Some of the topics discussed: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference 2024 MyWikis MyWikis Europe "Why People Don't Like Fandom Wikis" (2022 blo…

In this episode Alex and Jacob explore a large range of topis such as Disney investments, Alex is starting to play more Fortnite, Sora using Unreal Engine for training data, Apple Vision Unreal update (and general check in with AVP), and a quick “if I was doing this from scratch” tutorial. Links: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-and-epic-gam…

🕑 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. Links for some of the topics discussed: Procédurable Arbre-Évolution Coop "Understanding wiki collaboration in Quebec healthcare organizations" (2012 paper …

Enhanced Remix of Alex and Jacob as they explore the Apple Vision Pro launch. Links: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/unreal-fest-2024-global-lineup https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/ https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/unreal-fest-2024-global-lineup

🕑 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, Wikibase. Links for some of the t…

Links: Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0dG-2huJE UEVR Injector: https://github.com/praydog/UEVR CitraVR: https://github.com/amwatson/CitraVR Unreal Fest Japan 2023: https://unrealengine.jp/unrealfest/2023/ Epic Games vs Google: https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-epic-games-face-off-app-antitrust-trial-nears-end-…

This week we have a special cross promotion podcast from the Inflection Point Conversations with Michelle Obayda podcast. Michelle Obayda Links: IG - inflection_point_conversations IG - chellypegs LinkedIn - Michelle Obayda www.youtube.com/@_InflectionPoint Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/753RZnGbDm1AGxBkyqnEDg?si=7e18e2bc5d594b6a michelleo…

🕑 52 minutes Srishti Sethi (also known as SrishAkaTux) is a developer advocate in the Language Team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Prior to the mass reorganization at the Wikimedia Foundation in summer 2023, she was part of the Technical Engagement team. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia outreach programs Outreach programs success sto…

🕑 23 minutes It's another BTB Digest! Highlights from five recent episodes. Bryan Hilderbrand considers the future of scientific publishing, Jan Ainali thinks about solutions for Wikidata's messiness, Tricia Burmeister recounts the challenges of changing a wiki's front page, Ilias Sarantopoulos praises the new Lift Wing software, Alissa Stern expla…

Senior Creative Technologist at Agile Lens, Yu-Jun Yeh, talks leading the dev team for the 2023 iteration of A Christmas Carol VR

🕑 1 hour 8 minutes It's not quite a holiday episode, but it is an end-of-year wrapup, featuring William Beutler, strategic marketing consultant and author of the blog The Wikipedian, which went on hiatus in 2020 and is now thankfully back. William shares some of the stories that he's working on for his "Top 10 Wikipedia Stories of 2023" feature (hi…

Links: Alex on XR AI Spotlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmoGVWtcceo https://www.xmascarolvr.com/tickets (CODE: CLOCKWORKORANGE50) https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/introducing-lego-fortnite-rocket-racing-and[…]nite-festival-new-epic-games-launching-this-week-in-fortnite https://realtime.community/https://www.filmgate.miami/fgix-proj…

Audio remaster of Season 2 episode 8 Epic Games Store Losing Money, Networking Nerds & Xmas Carol VR Preview.

🕑 55 minutes Birgit Müller is the Director of Product for MediaWiki and Developer Experiences at the Wikimedia Foundation. Before that, she was Director of Technical Engagement. From 2014 to 2019, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland. Links for some of the topics discussed: Birgit's user page on mediawiki.org MediaWiki Product Insights Monthly Media…