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!