Aug 25, 2026
🕑 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?