Episode 131: Waldir Pimenta
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 131
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Episode 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
- 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
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