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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 16
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The Panel
Using Skype to record the conversation - can handle up to 10 people simultaniously. Hosts
Panelists
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
- Jimbo's letter to New Yorker published
- I am writing to apologize to "The New Yorker" and Stacy Schiff, and to give some follow-up concerning Ryan Jordan (Editors' Note, March 5). When I last spoke to "The New Yorker" about the fact that a prominent Wikipedia community member had lied about his credentials, I misjudged the issue. It was not O.K. for Mr. Jordan, or Essjay, to lie to a reporter, even to protect his identity. I later learned more about the deceptions involved and asked Mr. Jordan to resign from his positions of responsibility at Wikipedia. He has since resigned from his position at Wikia as well. Mr. Jordan is a wonderful and thoughtful young man who made a series of very bad judgments. I consider him a friend, and I hope that the world will allow to move forward in peace and dignity to regain his honor through a life well lived. Wikipedia is built on trust and love. Our trust has been broken, and only love can rebuild it. The community has begun discussing a proposal of mine that we adopt some verification measures for claimed credentials, so that Wikipedia may further improve from this painful experience.
- Jimmy Wales
- President of Wikia, Inc.; board member and chairman emeritus of the
- Wikimedia Foundation, St. Petersburg, Fla.
- I am writing to apologize to "The New Yorker" and Stacy Schiff, and to give some follow-up concerning Ryan Jordan (Editors' Note, March 5). When I last spoke to "The New Yorker" about the fact that a prominent Wikipedia community member had lied about his credentials, I misjudged the issue. It was not O.K. for Mr. Jordan, or Essjay, to lie to a reporter, even to protect his identity. I later learned more about the deceptions involved and asked Mr. Jordan to resign from his positions of responsibility at Wikipedia. He has since resigned from his position at Wikia as well. Mr. Jordan is a wonderful and thoughtful young man who made a series of very bad judgments. I consider him a friend, and I hope that the world will allow to move forward in peace and dignity to regain his honor through a life well lived. Wikipedia is built on trust and love. Our trust has been broken, and only love can rebuild it. The community has begun discussing a proposal of mine that we adopt some verification measures for claimed credentials, so that Wikipedia may further improve from this painful experience.
- 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
- As opposed to deleting an article and "salting the ground"... perhaps we need a "Phantom Zone" for articles, where we have them exist, but are frozen by policy to not change. Keep it length limited.
- Examples: Israel News Agency (deleted, NN), Brian Peppers, Daniel Brandt, GNAA
- Plagued by inordinate size/spam/piling-on relative to their importance
- From Phantom Zone - "The inmates of this dimension are cast into the Phantom Zone and reside in a featureless state of existence from which they observe, but cannot interact with, the regular dimension clearly. Inmates do not age or require sustenance in the Phantom Zone."
- Or maybe this is an argument for a feature to have a max size of articles.
- 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?
Interlingua
Wiki Industry
- Gaming Wikia and other sites launched
- Danny Hillis Freebase
- Citizendium News?
Featured Editor/Project
The World According to Wikipedia
The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia.
- More 300 (film) popularity
- Criticism of film from Iran
- Top results for Battle of Thermopylae, Sparta
- 33. 300 (comic book)
- 37. 300
- 48. Xerxes I of Persia
- 93. Persian Empire
- 18. Saint Patrick's Day
- 24. Sinbad (actor)
- 36. Richard Jeni
Conclusion
- How to contact us
- Digg our podcast!
- Sign off
- Closing music...