Episode 213: Waldir Pimenta

🕑 1 hour 32 minutes

Waldir Pimenta returns to talk about the recent Wikimania, the hackathon-to-development pipeline, unionization and other topics.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

Wikimania 2026 team challenges Map the Gap (Wikimania hackathon team project) Wikinewsie WISE (semantic image search for Commons) Wiki Fringe at Wikimania 2026 Requests for comment: The future of Abstract Wikipedia Useful functions for article composition at Abstract Wikipedia Wiki Workers United "Wikipedia:WMF Community Tech team has been disbanded, engineers laid off" Outline of episode:

0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:20 - Cape Verde at the world cup 0:10:30 - Recap of recent activity 0:15:00 - Wikimania impressions 0:25:00 - Wikinewsie 0:27:30 - Wikimania Hackathon project: Portrait categorizer 0:28:45 - Team Challenges: Map the Gap 0:40:10 - Experimentation and innovation in the Wikimedia movement 0:48:35 - Lack of UX and design prioritization in Wikimedia projects 0:52:20 - Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 / WISE 0:54:30 - Mechanisms to encourage and facilitate collaboration and consolidation in tool development 0:57:30 - Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions 1:08:30 - Wiki Workers United 1:29:30 - A future Wikimedia Hackathon in Portugal?