Become a sponsor to Waldir Pimenta
Hi, I'm Waldir! 👋🏼 I'm a big fan of open content, open source, intrinsically-motivated work and collaboration over competition.
I am active weekly, if not daily, in the open source community, contributing code, documentation, translations and issue reports to dozens of projects, and helping maintain a few of them, like mwclient (a Python client for the MediaWiki API) and tldr-pages (a community-driven repository of simplified manpages, with hundreds of contributors).
Beyond open source, I have been continuously contributing to Wikipedia (and Wikidata) for over a decade now, as well as other open content projects like OpenStreetMap, and Q&A sites like StackOverflow. As a native from Cape Verde, I have authored the bulk of Cape Verdean Creole content in Unicode's locale repository (CLDR), which is already powering the interface localization of Apple devices in Cape Verde.
Whenever I can, I attend events in the open source and open content spheres, both as a participant and as a speaker, and organize local and online initiatives in the communities I am involved in, to help more people get engaged with open source projects.
I have no specific funding goals — I'd be thankful for any support that I receive, mostly as a confirmation that my efforts are valued and appreciated. Thanks for reading!
Featured work
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tldr-pages/tldr
📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
Markdown 48,886 -
waldyrious/hash-my-pass
A bookmarklet to generate unique passwords per website, based on a single master password.
HTML 17 -
waldyrious/wikispeed
A visualization of the rate of edits to Wikipedia in various languages.
JavaScript 11 -
browserpad/browserpad
A fully client-side plain text editor in the browser.
JavaScript 49 -
waldyrious/primerpedia
Simplified extracts of Wikipedia articles, showing just the basic information.
JavaScript 11 -
waldyrious/downstyler
A stylesheet and bookmarklet that trims webpage styles down to near-bare HTML.
HTML 29