Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode16

Wikipedia Weekly Episode 16 Released: N/A

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The Panel

Using Skype to record the conversation - can handle up to 10 people simultaniously. Hosts

• Fuzheado | Talk
• Tawker

Panelists

• Daveydweeb

Planned Content

Introduction

• Opening music...
• Introduction of panelists (with small personalised comment)
• Index of what we will talk about - record at conclusion and edit in later

News

• Hiring of Bastique, Cary Bass
• United States housing bubble
• Wikimania Lounge idea
• Web 3.0 article gets attention [1], deleted 5 times, as recent as October 2006. Google "Web 3.0" and Web 3.0 does not even show up on first screen. Semantic Web is number 4.

Special Report

• The difficulty of finding pages in WP that you don't already know how to spell/exist
  • Maybe we could make a competition out of this? The person who finds the shortest route to the "difficult page" we discuss gets a WW-barnstar?

Wiki Industry

• Gaming Wikia and other sites launched
• Danny Hillis Freebase

The World According to Wikipedia

The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia.

Conclusion

• How to contact us
• Digg our podcast!
• Sign off
• Closing music...