🕑 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)