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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 3.0 - Wikipedia.... anywhere...

The Panel

Currently, It's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks, but for practical purposes four is about ideal.

Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and be regular listeners of other podcasts.

Main hosts
Guest hosts

Discussion

What should our main focus be for the week?

Sex, drugs, rock and roll? North Korea? Food! #wikipedia IRC room— Preceding unsigned comment added by Buickid (talk • contribs)

The main focus will be an interview with Matt Swann and Offline Wikipedia content, such as Wikipedia CD, Webaroo, etc. - Zero1328 Talk? 06:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correct pronounciation of 'Wikipedia'

Well, after some flaming about how it's pronounced after it was spoken aloud, I think we should hire CableModem (who I think has skype) to say it the right way, seeing as the word is derived from Hawaiian, and he is living in Hawaii. :DMichael Billington (talk • contribs) 09:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But he says "Weaky". It's "Whicky"! – Gurch 13:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The opinions of a number of Wiktionary people can be heard here and especially here. The variations in the latter are pretty wide. In general, the pronunciation of a word ultimately has to do with how people gravitate towards saying it rather than necessarily how it is "supposed to" be said, particularly for loan words. Thus, many words that English borrows from French no longer sound the same at all. Compare the pronunciations, for instance, on brouhaha or lieutenant. —Dvortygirl 14:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Agenda

This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.

Time of Recording

[to be announced]

Introduce the panel

That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.

News

Go through any recent news (for instance, any major headlines we see). Each person on the panel introduces at least one item, if possible, which the rest then talk about - so, everyone speaks equally, and we have a chance to properly talk things through. I guess each item could have a few minutes' discussion, or as much as we think it can take before it gets boring.

If we have time or nothing of interest, reading and discussing some articles on the Signpost may attract more people to read it.

Some suggested items for Episode 2:

  1. MyWikiBiz
    • The Wikipedia account of a business selling its services in creating Wikipedia articles was blocked by Jimbo Wales, after a truce over the ethical concerns involved broke down. User:MyWikiBiz has been blocked indefinitely, and Wales deleted two of the articles created as a result. - commentfrom Jimbo would be nice on this

From the Signpost

[Add content here]

Special focus (Matt Swann and Offline Wikipedia)

There are various forms of Wikipedia offline, and we'll have Matt Swann to talk about WikiPod, Wikipedia on the iPod.(Swann's blog post). Other offline Wikipedias include Wikipedia CD, TomeRaider, and Webaroo.

Questions for Jimbo

  1. In a recent email, you asked the community for things that we'd like to make free, that would otherwise be difficult to reproduce. That's such an open question, like "you're stuck on a desert island, what album would you take with you?", so I can see it invites almost any kind of answer. What kind of responses have you received to that email, and what are your own thoughts on the matter?
  2. So, that said... what album would you take with you to a desert island?
  3. It has been suggested by some users what we look into video with this $1Mil. Can you see Wikipedia moving into user created video or does video seem to be problems on a massive scale
  4. Would this funding allow WMF to expand server capacity to include this additional information or is this simply for the IP rights to the content, the capacity to serve it being needed to be created later?
  5. Wikipedia has come under fire over its accuracy in recent times, and everyone seems to be comparing it to alternatives like Britannica and, to a lesser extent, Encarta. Do you think Wikipedia has anything to learn from other major encyclopedias, and perhaps from project forks like Larry Sanger's Citizendium?
    Comments re WSJ Interview on reliability
  6. Do you see Iran's restriction on internet speeds as an issue for Wikipedia and citizen media?
  7. Has there been any contact w/ China whatsoever?
  8. Do you see yourself as a figurehead?

Anything else

If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say. :)

The World According to Wikipedia

This would be a quick, light-hearted discussion of any particularly funny page-rankings we see on The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia. There's at least two or three minutes' worth of humour in that. :)


Global Questions

  1. What are are your thoughts on a "kid safe" version of Wikipedia that is clearly marked as such for elementary ed. SEWiki is easier to read for young(er) children but is still uncensored, what are your thoughts on a "kid safe" version of Wikipedia to allow more widespread usage in elementary and other "censored" forms of education.


What's on Next episode?

A summary of possible topics what will be discussed in the following episode. This requires us to begin planning the next episode soon.

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