Season 1 · Episode 196
Episode 196: Stephen Harrison
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
December 2, 20251h 36m
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Show Notes
🕑 1 hour 37 minutes
Stephen Harrison is a tech lawyer and journalist who has been writing about Wikipedia since 2018, including for Slate and The New York Times. He joins us to talk about all the Wikimedia-related events of the crazy month of October 2025, including the release of Jimmy Wales' book, Larry Sanger's "nine theses", some near-violence in New York City, and the launch of the site Grokipedia.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Nine Theses on Wikipedia by Larry Sanger
- "October Surprise: The 2025 Wikimedia Elections Fall into a Transparency Trap" (The Wikipedian blog post)
- WikiConference North America
- "Why Editing Wikipedia Is Becoming More Dangerous" (Slate article by Stephen Harrison, October 2025)
- Grokipedia
- Yaron's LinkedIn post about Grokipedia
- The Seven Rules of Trust by Jimmy Wales
- "Wikipedia co-founder slams 'Gaza genocide' page over 'egregious' anti-Israel claims" (New York Post article, November 2025)
- Jimmy Wales interview on Jung & Naiv podcast, November 2025