Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode20

Episode 20
Released: Soon!

The link to all versions of Wikipedia Weekly is at wikipedia weekly.com

Proposed time

Saturday, June 2, 2007, 0500 UTC

This is Wikipedia Weekly, Episode 20, for the week of June four, two thousand and seven.

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

Participants:

Wikipedia reaches ninth place on Alexa -- still a long way behind Orkut, but catching up. Alexa statistics say that:
- 6.3% of Internet users read Wikipedia
- Wikipedia accounts for nearly half of one percent all page views on the Internet
- Wikipedia reaches more users than the 6th-, 7th- and 8th-ranked sites: (MySpace, Baidu and Orkut, respectively)
Wikimedia Commons reaches 1.5 Million media files. The last time milestone was celebrated on November 30th, 2006 with a bloody big mosaic; it's taken just 184 days to add a further 500,000 files.
Second Wikipedia Disc for Children released -- volunteers of the English Wikipedia and SOS Children UK have released the next version of their offline release, this time weighing in at 3.5GB compared to the <200MB of the first release.
- Read the Signpost article! -- it's very detailed.

David has registered and confirmed, Liam is doing the same
We may be joining forces with Elizabeth Stark and SJ Klein, who are trying to set up "free culture" spaces at WM.

Podcaster's Pick

Cultural moment

Preceded by Episode 19	Episode 20	Succeeded by Episode 21