Episode 84: Farewell Brion Part II

Second half of the interview with Brion. We discuss: the history of MediaWiki “phase 3″; the API; his biggest mistake (not having SUL earlier); how to make decisions without consensus for change; improving the template interface; a new release from the usability team; LiquidThreads; problems looming in hardware and software; whether we’ve gone from innovative to ’stuck’; learning how to learn; and what he has gotten out of being a Wikimedian.

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1. Here’s a link to the meandering, possibly bikeshedding template-call-editing mailing list thread Brion was talking about.

   Comment by Yaron — October 7, 2009 @ 9:40 pm

2. [...] ok. Wikipediaweekly.org interview part 2 with @brionv is back online. here: http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/10/07/farewell-brion-part-ii/ [...]

   Pingback by Liam Wyatt (wittylama) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 01:46:39 UTC - Identi.ca — October 8, 2009 @ 1:46 am

3. [...] http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/10/07/farewell-brion-part-ii/ a few seconds ago from web [...]

   Pingback by The Wikipedia Signpost (wikisignpost) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 03:24:29 UTC - Identi.ca — October 8, 2009 @ 3:24 am

4. [...] http://wikipediaweekly.org/2009/10/07/farewell-brion-part-ii/ a few seconds ago from Adium in context [...]

   Pingback by Brion Vibber (brionv) 's status on Thursday, 08-Oct-09 16:56:37 UTC - Identi.ca — October 8, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

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