Apr 17, 2018
🕑 1 hour 4 minutes
Daren Welsh and James Montalvo are flight controllers and instructors at the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) group at the Johnson Space Center at NASA. They first set up MediaWiki for their group in 2011; since then, they have overseen the spread of MediaWiki throughout the flight operations directorate at Johnson Space Center. They have also done a significant amount of MediaWiki development, including, most recently, the creation of Meza, a Linux-based tool that allows for easy installation and maintenance of MediaWiki.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- "What is EVA?", NASA.gov
- "Extravehicular activity" Wikipedia article
- Wikimedia
Foundation blog post on NASA
- WMF
YouTube video on NASA
- Summary of
state of NASA wikis in 2016
- "Spacesuit Leak That Nearly Drowned Astronaut Could Have Been Avoided", Space.com, February 26, 2014
- WatchAnalytics
MediaWiki extension
- Meza