🕑 1 hour 19 minutes

Richard Knipel (username Pharos) returns, for a special holiday-esque episode! He talks about recent developments with Wikispore, the Wikimedia Movement Charter, and Wikimedia New York City; and then we listen to some freely-licensed music from Wikimedia Commons.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• Wikimedia Movement Charter
• Wikispore
• "Grant project for Wikinews" proposal
• "World AIDS Day 2024 is marked around the world" (Wikinews article mostly written by Richard)
• "Wikicurious" Wikimedia NYC events
• WikiConference North America 2025
• New Years Eve Cosmic Turtle Drop + Public Domain Film Festival (December 31, 2024)
• The music:
  • Movement I ("Modéré") from the Sonatine by Maurice Ravel, performed by Robert Casadesus
  • Unnamed Azande-language song performed by Dominique Manzadi
  • "Grateful" by NEFFEX
  • "Ego sum pastor bonus" by Waclaw of Szamotuly, performed by Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz
  • "Ochi chyornye" ("Dark Eyes") by Yevhen Hrebink and Florian Hermann, performed by Feodor Chaliapin
  • Movement IV ("Allegretto con variazioni") from the clarinet quintet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Vlad Weverbergh and the Terra Nova Collective
• WikiFlix