Season 1 · Episode 200
Episode 200: Liam Wyatt
Between the Brackets: a MediaWiki Podcast
January 27, 20261h 14m
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Show Notes
🕑 1 hour 14 minutes
It's the (belated) 25th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia - and the 200th episode! For this special episode, we have the return of Liam Wyatt (username Wittylama), a longtime Wikipedia volunteer and commentator, the first-ever Wikipedian-in-residence, and now a Senior Technical Partnerships Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia's past, present and future.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Wikipedia Weekly podcast archive at Internet Archive
- Wikipedia 25 virtual birthday party (video)
- "Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report: Fiscal Year 2024 – 2025" (November 2025 Diff blog post)
- "Announcing New Wikimedia Enterprise Partners for Wikipedia's 25th Birthday" (January 2026 blog post)
- "Nominating Wikipedia for UNESCO Memory of the World: The never before told story" (November 2025 GLAM-Wiki talk by Liam)
- "Dealing with AI web crawlers at the WMF" (May 2025 presentation by Giuseppe Lavagetto)
- "Wikipedia at 25: A Wake-Up Call" (January 2026 essay by Christophe Henner)