Description

🕑 1 hour 44 minutes

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