Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode1

This is Wikipedia Weekly, Episode 1 for the week of October 16, 2006.

Introduction of the panel
- Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado, active on English Wikipedia located in China. Currently writing a book about Wikipedia and its community.
- Andrew2 aka User:Tawker, of Tawkerbot2 and currently located in Canada. Is not writing a book about Wikipedia yet... his blog isn't paper worthy yet
- I think in this podcast, we'll go by Wikipedia usernames, because there are way too many Andrews in the Wikipedia universe.
Introduction to news sources
- Signpost, started by Michael Snow
- Wikizine, by walter (http://www.wikizine.org/)
- Wikipedia:Announcements
Latest news
- Board elections - Erik Moeller elected, Kat and Oscar next.
- No more @ signs in usernames, because of spamming, breaks stuff [username@foobar.com] - New accounts on the WMF-wikis can not longer be created if the username contains the @-symbol. Existing users who have that symbol in there username can still login but only temporary. All these users need to request for a username change. Contact a local bureaucrat to do that or ask a steward if your wiki does not have a bureaucrat.
  - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Username_changes
- [CategoryTree] - On the category-pages there is now a function added that lets users browse through the lower category levels from the higher category. There is an option to "expand" the category. This makes it much more easy to navigate and find the category you are looking for without the need to actually request the different layers of the category. This function works only if javascript is enabled. If not, the "+" symbol appears but does not work. Those users can still use the categories the traditional way.
- Bot commons delinker
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wherebot - Copyvio finding bot
- Chinese unblocking Wikipedia
- Tor blocking.... is it a good pratice
- Taiwan location for Wikimania 2007
- Polar exploration improvement
Special:Random article + discussion
Listener feedback
- Leave on WP:WWPC
Regular Segments
- The World According to Wikipedia [1]

       8. Lost (TV series)
       11. Amish
       12. YouTube
       13. World War II
       14. PlayStation 3
       16. United States
       18. North Korea
       20. List of big-bust models and performers
       21. Sexual intercourse
       22. Naruto
       25. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
       26. Christopher Columbus
       27. List of sex positions
       28. Wii
       29. Japan
       30. Sex
       31. September 11, 2001 attacks
       32. 2006 North Korean nuclear test
       33. List of female porn stars
       34. X-Men
       35. List of South Park episodes
       36. Deaths in 2006
       37. Mark Foley
       38. Clitoris
       39. South Park
       40. The Lord of the Rings
       41. Windows Vista
       42. Penis
       43. Special:Booksources
       44. France
       45. List of Naruto episodes
       46. Cory Lidle
       47. Mexico
       48. Masturbation
       49. Make Love, Not Warcraft
       50. Nuclear weapon#* Stats/numbers

Milestones

We have two that have reached 2,000 articles...

   * The Faroese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
   * The Ilokano Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

Faroese (føroyskt [ˈføːɹɪst]), often also spelled Faeroese, is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese in Denmark.

Ilokano (variants: Ilocano, Iluko, Iloco, and Iloko) is the third most-spoken language of the Republic of the Philippines.

We have two that have reached 3,000...

   * The West Frisian Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
   * The Urdu Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.

West Frisian (Frysk) is a language spoken mostly in the province of Fryslân in the north of the Netherlands.

Urdū is approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the national language of Pakistan as well as one of the 23 national languages of India.

   * The Siberian / North Russian Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.

Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France.

   * The Breton Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles.

   * The Thai Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles and 12,000 registered users.

   * The French Wikipedia has reached 370,000 articles.

Wiktionary roundup:

   * The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
   * The English Wiktionary has reached 250,000 entries.

"The First Wiki is in the can"

Closing theme