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Episode 33: TBA
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This is Wikipedia Weekly, Episode 33, for the week of October fifteenth, two thousand and seven.

The Panel

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

Participants:

• Andrew Lih
• Tawker
• Liam Wyatt

News

• Foundation moving to San Francisco - interview Sue Gardener?
• Alexandria officially chosen as Wikimania 2008 venue
  • Rotation of location
  • Concern over LGBT issue
• Deletion dispute over Jimbo created article Mzoli's. Discussed in LA Times http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/delete-generation-rips-encyclopedia-apart/2007/10/12/1191696163688.html?page=2.
  • Jimmy visited in South Africa
  • Someone deleted
• WatchFlikr the tool by Magnus that automatically searches Flikr for free images to replace image placeholders.
• Who writes Wikipedia? Top 0.1% important [1]
• Hit and view difference on Obama vs Clinton
• Mailing list suggestion about Wikimarkup, and hiding templates at the top
• Wikigroaning

Wiki-Industry

New Zealand Police force have started a wiki to encourage input into their new Policing act. [2]

Features

Podcaster's Pick

• Fuzheado - Bacn

Wikirage Top 50

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1. Battleship, 3712
2. Donkey Kong (video game)
3. Portal (video game)
4. Blackout (Britney Spears album)
5. TNA Bound for Glory (2007)
6. I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged …
7. In Rainbows
8. Three Gorges Dam
9. Sébastien Chabal
10. Avenged Sevenfold (album)
11. 2007 Rugby World Cup, 500, Sep 16
12. Twitches Too
13. Half-Life 2: Episode Two, 1919
14. Naruto Uzumaki, 84
15. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV,…
16. Cake
17. America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9…
18. Big Moe
19. Australian federal election, 2007…
20. Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals
21. Lil Wayne, 70
22. Vinny Testaverde
23. Beyoncé Knowles, 241
24. Metroid (series), 1168
25. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi …
26. B5 (band) verify
27. Deaths in 2007, 9
28. Intelligent design, Oct 12
29. New York City, 31, Oct 6
30. Al Gore, 982
31. Marie de' Medici cycle
32. Theodore Roosevelt, 275
33. Snake Jailbird
34. The Rock (entertainer), 3687, verify
35. Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edit…
36. Bob Denard
37. England, 209
38. Spells in Harry Potter, 333
39. Madden Curse
40. Mariah Carey's eleventh studio al…
41. Martin Luther King, Jr., 430
42. Eric Gagné
43. Iroquois, 4603
44. America's Next Top Model, 21
45. American football, 830
46. I-Empire, 4802
47. Gail Kim
48. Elvis Presley, 99
49. Jutsu (Naruto)
50. TNA Women's World Championship

Wiki Top 50

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1. Main Page
2. Wiki
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. Naruto
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
6. United States
7. Harry Potter
8. Deaths in 2007
9. Halo 3
10. Wikipedia
11. Transformers (film)
12. Vanessa Anne Hudgens
13. Luciano Pavarotti
14. Heroes (TV series)
15. Bleach (manga)
16. 50 Cent
17. List of sex positions
18. Hypertext Transfer Protocol
19. World Wrestling Entertainment
20. World War II
21. Sex
22. America's Next Top Model
23. YouTube
24. Akatsuki (Naruto)
25. September 11, 2001 attacks
26. Adolf Hitler
27. Graduation (album)
28. Britney Spears
29. The Simpsons
30. Kanye West
31. New York City
32. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008
33. Masturbation
34. Zac Efron
35. Sexual intercourse
36. Curtis (50 Cent album)
37. Wii
38. Family Guy
39. MySpace
40. Germany
41. List of Naruto characters
42. Anal sex
43. France
44. Xbox 360
45. World Wrestling Entertainment roster
46. List of Konoha ninja
47. United Kingdom
48. BioShock
49. Steve Fossett
50. PlayStation 3