Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode71

Episode 71: TBA
Released: TBA

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Shameless plug: Book launch March 19, 2009, in NYC
This week in Censorship
Darwin post by Sage Ross
- Related copyFAILs [1]
Britannica and 20 minutes turnaround?
File formats for upload - Brianna talking about slides and presentations[2], Durova talking about restoration of images [3]
Ogg Announcement, $100,000 grant. [4] $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software... Ogg Theora encoder enhancements, improvements to network seeking, and client and server libraries which will end up in Firefox and MediaWiki. These enhancements to MediaWiki should be available some time around May this year and will allow organizations to run their own collaborative video server. Mozilla Blog:[5]
Abuse filter now works [6] description: [7]
Commons Picture of the Year is coming again soon [8]

Fuzheado | Talk - http://www.wikicu.com - Columbia University wiki, my alma mater; other unis do same thing; demographic overlap with Wikipedians; rare example of small-medium size wikis that work; maybe wikis are for certain age group?

Wikipedia:Did you know/Darwin Day 2009
Flagged Revisions poll
The term for out-of-proportion Wikipedia articles that escaped us: Wikigroaninng.
File:John_Paul_Jones2.png failed .png formatting
Wounded Knee Massacre image discovery during restoration.[9] Or here for a quick before and after.

Preceded by Episode 70: Under the Microscope	Episode 71	Succeeded by Episode 72