Episode 131: Waldir Pimenta

Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast

English - January 31, 2023 17:57 - 1 hour - 100 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Waldir Pimenta is the co-founder of Wikimedia Portugal, and an active translator of core MediaWiki and extensions. He has also been involved in developing various Wikimedia-related tools.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

Wikimedia Portugal Timeline of founding Cape Verdean Creole ("kea") translation statistics Unicode CLDR Project "Geeks and Nerds" xkcd comic tldr pages application Community roles document Indeed's FOSS Contributor Fund guidebook Emma Irwin and [Microsoft's] FOSS Fund Program (Sustain OSS podcast) GitHub Accelerator GiveDirectly Wikipedia article The Giving Pledge Wikipedia article Open Collective Foundation Toolforge abandoned tool policy Wikimate MediaWiki API wrapper "Non-Hierarchical Management", Aaron Swartz, 2009 Guido van Rossum on stepping down as Python's BDFL (YouTube video) DoOcracy (CommunityWiki) Teal organisation Wikipedia article Sortition Wikipedia article