Best wikimedia Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 250: Wikimedia’s Jan Gerlach on the Risks and Challenges with Digital Policy Reform 31:25

1h ago31:25

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I’m not quite sure how this happened, but somehow this is the 250th episode of the Law Bytes podcast. To mark this milestone, I’m joined by Jan Gerlach, Wikimedia’s Director of Public Policy, who leads its EU advocacy work, including efforts on UK Online Safety Act. This is particularly relevant in a Canadian context since this work has touched on …

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Episode 195: BTB Digest 31 27:35

2h ago27:35

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🕑 28 minutes Clips from five recent episodes! Dan Andreescu considers a new "Datawiki" project, Wojciech Pędzich makes use of the Wikipedia sound logo, Thomas Chin retells a piece of Wikimedia development lore, SJ Klein contemplates the use of "Abstractese", Matt Latourelle explains Ballotpedia's neutrality, and more!…

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S7 Ep348: Doing Time at Brushy Mountain State Pen 26:36

19m ago26:36

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Nestled in the mountains of Tennessee stands Brushy Mountain, where many dangerous men called home, including a notorious serial killer and the man who killed MLK Jr. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: Bobby Mackey "Johanna" Alien Manner "Listen Official" CITY SHOUT OUT: 🇺🇸 Kirkland, Washington 🇷🇴 Iasi, Romania 🇨🇦 Niagara Falls, Canada 🇺🇸 Lakewood,…

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Episode 249: The Debate Over Canada’s AI Strategy - My Consultation Submission and Appearance at the Canadian Heritage Committee 49:18

1h ago49:18

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The government’s AI consultation concluded at the end of October with expectations that a strategy will emerge before the end of the year. I participated in the consultation with a brief submission and in an appearance as a witness before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage for its study on the effectiveness of technological advances in art…

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S7 Ep347: Rocker Deaths Part 6: Sid Vicious, Rusty Day & Roger Troutman 33:22

2d ago33:22

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Continuing the Rocker Death series, Part 6 sees a whole new lineup. From drug overdosage to straight up murder, you won't want to miss this! CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Destined to Fail (Colorado) 👽 Alien Manner (California) 🥁 Fading Point (Arizona) 🎤 Stick the Landing (Illinois) 🎵 Liars Handshake (Colorado) ROCKER LINE UP: Sid Vicious Rus…

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Episode 194: Vera de Kok 1:56:16

3d ago1:56:16

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🕑 1 hour 57 minutes Vera de Kok is a freelance photographer, developer and wiki consultant who was named Media Contributor of the Year at the 2025 Wikimania conference for her contributions to both Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Links for some of the topics discussed: "I'm Wikipedia's "Media Contributor of the Year"!" (September 2025 blog post by …

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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 248: Mark Surman on Why Canada's AI Strategy Should Prioritize Public AI Models 36:55

3d ago36:55

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AI Minister Evan Solomon’s AI public consultation – framed as a 30 day sprint – wrapped up last week with expectations that the government will unveil a new AI strategy by the end of the year. Much of the emphasis to date has focused on how Canada can ensure that it is an AI leader with Solomon previously warning about how the government may have “…

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S7 Ep346: Heartbreak at Heart Mountain Relocation Center 44:34

12d ago44:34

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After the catastrophic bombing at Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes and transferred to Relocation Centers scattered throughout the United States, one of those places was Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. The ones fortunate enough to survive would stay here until the war was over. CREDITS & LINKS CITY SHOUT O…

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21: Happy Halloween! Featuring Theresa Arguello, Kara McCoy & Kristin Belston 22:19

6d ago22:19

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In this ghoulishly amazing episode three phenomenal ladies share their experiences! CREDIT & LINKS VOICE OVER SHOUT OUTS: 🎃Theresa Arguello 🎃Kara McCoy 🎃 Kristin Belston KARING FOR KARA FUNDRAISER: http://spot.fund/2k856k8sc COVER PHOTO: this image was created by Tessa with the help of AI STORY BLOCKS: https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/fun-ha…

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Episode 247: My Senate Appearance on the Bill That Could Lead to Canada-Wide Blocking of X, Reddit and ChatGPT 35:32

23d ago35:32

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Bill S-209, the legislative effort to establish age verification requirements for sites and services that are said to facilitate access to pornography, is back. The bill has some modest improvements from the earlier S-210, but the core concerns – overbroad scope that lumps in social media companies, Internet providers, and AI services with pornogra…

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S7 Ep345: Behind the Scene with Fading Point Feat Mike Fabian, Rich Thayer, Matt Crabb, James Martinez & Tim Stinson 1:01:07

10d ago1:01:07

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In this behind the scenes interview - Tessa talks all thins music with Fading Point, a kick ass band who is releasing a brand new album, along with a huge concert on November 1st. Tune in now to hear what Fading Point - Richard Thayer, Mike Fabian, James Martinez, Tim Stinson and Matt Crabb- has to say. CREDIT AND LINKS MUSIC PROVIDED BY: Fading Po…

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Episode 193: Cormac Parle 1:17:06

28d ago1:17:06

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🕑 1 hour 17 minutes Cormac Parle is a principal software engineer in the Product & Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team Wikimedia Foundation Structured Content team Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons Stoat playlist "Why you should give up on your dreams" (2021 talk…

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Episode 246: Mohamed Zohiri on the Rise and Emerging Regulation of Stablecoins 38:46

29d ago38:46

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Stablecoins have increasingly begun to enter the mainstream with previously reticent policy makers, regulators, and financial institutions now shifting toward regulatory frameworks that seem more supportive of their development. The U.S. has been the most aggressive with the recent passage of the GENIUS Act, but Canadian officials have taken notice…

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S7 Ep344: Singing the Prison Blues at Joliet Prison Part 2 25:27

17d ago25:27

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In part 2 of the short Old Joliet Prison series, Tessa talks about inmates, riots and executions. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” 🎸 Destined to Fail “Shades 🚫f Gray” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🏴 Turriff, Scotland 🇺🇸 Jeanette, Pennsylvania 🇨🇦 Saint Lambert, Canada 🇺🇸 Spokane, Washington 🇺🇸 Mililani Town, Hawaii 🇺🇸 Wamego, Ka…

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S7 Ep343: Singing the Prison Blues at Old Joliet Prison Part 1 35:11

1M ago35:11

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In part 1 of this part 2 series, Tessa talks about some of the history at Old Joliet Prison and some of the notorious inmates who called this prison home. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” 🎸Fading Point “Gasoline” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Bourbonnais, Illinois 🇺🇸 Glen Burnie, Maryland 🇺🇸 Leesburg, Virginia 🇺🇸 Wauseon, Oh…

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Episode 192: Matt Latourelle 51:27

1M ago51:27

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🕑 52 minutes Matt Latourelle is director of technology operations for the wiki-based website Ballotpedia. Links for some of the topics discussed: Ballotpedia "Ballotpedia and MediaWiki" (talk by Matt Latourelle and Joseph Sanchez, MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025) "How we categorize bias" (Ballotpedia essay) YouTube Ballotpedia c…

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Episode 245: Kate Robertson on Bill C-2’s Cross-Border Data Sharing Privacy Risks 50:24

1M ago50:24

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Bill C-2, the government’s proposed lawful access legislation, has been the subject of several prior episodes covering warrantless disclosure of information as part of the new information demand power in Part 14 of the bill as well as some of the surveillance technology capabilities found in Part 15. Those remain major issues, but there is another …

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S7 Ep342: Meet You at the Crystal Palace 24:24

1M ago24:24

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Crystal Palace located in the historic old west town of Tombstone is home to great steaks, old west atmosphere and ghosts a plenty. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” 🎸 Destined to Fail “The Sin is Enough” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Battle Creek, Michigan 🇺🇸 Edwardsville, Illinois 🇺🇸 Sierra Vista, Arizona 🇺🇸 Stafford, Virgi…

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S7 Ep341: Reign of Terror. Vampire Serial Killers Part 3 23:52

1M ago23:52

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In part three of the vampire serial killer series, there's a whole new lineup. Ion Rîmaru, Leszek Pękalski, Zdzislaw Marchwiki and Petros Koulaxidis. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸Wasilla, Alaska 🇺🇸Butte, Montana 🇺🇸 Fishers, Indiana 🇺🇸Georgetown, Texas 🏴 Lowestoft, England 🇺🇸Eagan, Minnesota V…

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Episode 191: SJ Klein 1:24:36

2M ago1:24:36

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🕑 1 hour 25 minutes Samuel J. "SJ" Klein is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He co-founded the Knowledge Futures project, served as director of content for One Laptop Per Child, and was on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2015. Links for some of the topics discussed: Berkm…

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Episode 244: Kris Klein on the Long Road to a Right to be Forgotten Under Canadian Privacy Law 32:57

2M ago32:57

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The “right to be forgotten” – perhaps better characterized as a right to de-index - has been a hotly debated privacy issue for well over a decade now, pitting those that argue that the harms that may come from the amplification of outdated but accurate content outweighs the benefits of maintaining such content in search indexes. The issue gets its …

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S7 Ep340: California Cemeteries. History & Haunts 26:33

2M ago26:33

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Tessa digs into the history and haunts regarding three cemeteries in Southern California, Calvary Cemetery, Rose Hill Historical Cemetery and El Campo Santo Cemetery. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Zion, Illinois 🇺🇸 Sun City, Arizona 🇺🇸 Meadville, Pennsylvania 🇺🇸 Harrisburg, North Carolina 🇺🇸 …

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Episode 243: What Are Canada’s Digital Policy Plans as Parliament Returns from the Summer Break? 28:37

2M ago28:37

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The return of the Law Bytes podcast series this week coincides with the return of Parliament from its summer break. Digital policy may not be at the very top of the legislative agenda, but there are no shortage of issues that could attract attention. This includes lawful access legislation introduced last June, the prospect of online harms safeguar…

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S7 Ep339: Words By My Grandfather. True Tales of WWII. Part 9 24:41

2M ago24:41

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The year is 1944. Gerald is somewhere in England, he writes home to Mom and Pop to tell them all about his adventures during his furlough spent in London. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Lovell, Wyoming 🏴 🏴 Deeside, border of Wales/ England 🇺🇸 Rockville, Maryland 🇮🇳 Chhindwara, India 🇺🇸 Kissimm…

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S7 Ep20: The Day That Changed America. Remembering September 11, 2001 48:03

2M ago48:03

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In the annual 9/11 episode, Tessa discusses children who lost firefighter fathers during the attacks and who followed in their heroic fathers footsteps, and much more. NEVER FORGET CREDITS & LINKS AUDIO : WikiMedia Commons New York Control tower to NY TRACON.ogg Two New York air traffic controllers communicate the positioning of United Airlines Fli…

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Episode 190: Thomas Chin 1:33:12

2M ago1:33:12

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🕑 1 hour 34 minutes Thomas Chin is a software engineer in the Data Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Links for some of the topics discussed: Tea Time with Thomas & Ty podcast Wikimedia Foundation Data Engineering Team Thomas Chin user page on mediawiki.org Dependency injection in MediaWiki code (provided by the MediaWikiService…

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S7 Ep338: The Deadly Basano Vase & The Chair of Death... The Busby Stooping Chair 24:24

2M ago24:24

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An Italian vase from the 15th century claims unsuspecting victims, and a chair that makes a man mad and obsessive enough to kill over, and before his execution puts a curse on the chair - anyone who sits in will die quickly afterwards. PS: be sure to check out Thursday's episode, the annual 9/11 episode CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Ma…

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S7 Ep337: Terror at the Mortuary! 17:50

3M ago17:50

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A well known mortuary, owned by the trusted county coroner was hiding a deep dark secret from the public, who trusted them with their deceased loved ones... a secret room filled with bodies and body parts... bodies that should have been cremated long ago... sounds like a movie right? No. This recently happened in Tessa's hometown. Pueblo, Colorado.…

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Episode 189: BTB Digest 30 27:45

3M ago27:45

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🕑 28 minutes A new BTB Digest! Cindy Cicalese is surprised about the popularity of her PluggableAuth extension, Luca Mauri extols the benefits of Federation, Edward Chernenko laments the difficulties in running a humor wiki, Marijn van Wezel discusses GDPR compliance, Markus Glaser offers a solution for collaborative editing in MediaWiki, and more!…

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S7 Ep336: Hauntings of Sandy Hook 20:46

3M ago20:46

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The history at Sandy Hook runs deep. From the United States oldest active lighthouse, to a group of men disappearing and being found frozen on an island, and much more. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Rancho Cordova, California 🇮🇪 Gort, Ireland 🇺🇸 Huxley, Iowa 🇺🇸 Fairburn, Georgia 🇺🇸 Bethseda, …

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S7 Ep335: Cemetery Trippen Part 2 27:43

3M ago27:43

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In part 2 Tessa digs deep into cemeteries scattered about the states. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Bridgeport, Connecticut 🇺🇸 West Point, New York 🇳🇱 Eygelshoven, Netherlands 🇲🇽 Juárez, Mexico 🇺🇸 Simpsonville, South Carolina 🏴 Leicester, England VOICE OVER SHOUT OUTS: Kara McCoy - City Shout…

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Episode 188: Wojciech Pędzich 55:23

3M ago55:23

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🕑 56 minutes Wojciech Pędzich (roughly pronounced "VOY-chek PEND-zhik") is a longtime Wikimedia volunteer, having served as an administrator on the Polish Wikipedia, a Wikimedia Steward, a member of the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee, a board member of Wikimedia Polska, an organizer of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) meeting, and a…

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S7 Ep334: Surviving the Michigan Triangle 44:36

3M ago44:36

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Like many of the triangles I have talked about throughout the years, The Michigan Triangle is no different. Connected to it are disappearances of people, planes and ships vanishing, drowning deaths and so much more. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Chino, California 🇺🇸 Manchester, Connecticut 🇳🇿…

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S7 Ep333: The Deadly, Unforgiving Waters of Lake Lanier & the Extinct Town of Oscarville 37:35

3M ago37:35

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Georgia is home to Lake Lanier, considered one of the most dangerous waters in America. This man made lake hides a secret, a complete town, Oscarville, is submerged. Over 700 have died here. CREDITS & LINKS MUSIC COURTESY OF: 🎸 Bobby Mackey “Johanna” 🎸 Stick the Landing "The Headliner" WEEKLY CITY SHOUT OUTS: 🇺🇸 Miramar, Beach, Florida 🇨🇳 Shanghai,…

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