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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 11
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The Panel

Currently, it's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks.

Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and have listened to other podcasts.

Main hosts

Fuzheado | Talk
Tawker

Guest hosts

Topics of Conversation

Fundraiser raised 1 million dollars
New advisory board for Wikimedia Foundation
New hire - Carolyn Doran, to work as Chief Operations Officer (COO)
Microsoft Pays Blogger to edit it's entry on WP: from cnn.com slashdot and techcrunch.com
Colbert encourages vandalism to reality: Video on YouTube of the segment [1] screencap.
Perhaps this petition about membership rights changes to the foundation?

Wiki Industry

Wikileaks is "leaked": homepage and wikileaks. There is also an article in the Sydney Morning Herald but you've got to pay for it - wittylama has a hardcopy.
A Million Penguins, MediaWiki powered website run by Penguin Books attempting to create WikiFiction [2]. (When searching for this on Google, you get directed to Punta Tombo!) Folks at SFWA Writer Beware think it's weird...

Cultural Moment

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Explain significance and interesting pop-references. (audio file here)

The World According to Wikipedia

If there's a lack of content then: The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia.

Feedback

If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say.

User:Jacoplane has submitted us to Digg's new podcasting service.
Significant comments from Episode 9:
- Keep pushing subscription
- Sound quality
  - MUCH better than last episode. Keep it up!
  - Oh, and do not type while on air
- Now using {{WikipediaWeekly-subscription}} to coordinate meetings.
- From JoeSmack: If you have IRC (I use Chatzilla) you can look at a bot-feed of anything added to Wikipedia with ‘http://’ in it - great for removing linkspam (which is a growing problem). The bot itself is named Linkwatcher (User:Eagle_101/Linkwatcher), and you can see this feed at #wikipedia-spam (freenode), or ask about it on its talk channel at #wikipedia-spam-t. It really is brilliant to see; you can just do a couple of middle-clicks from the channel and get the page dif and view the potential spam link, making it simply a matter of to revert changes or not. You might mention more of this in next epsiode; i know they are terribly over-worked and could use more volunteers.

Preceded by Episode 10	Episode 11	Succeeded by Episode 12