Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode4

WikipediaWeekly episode 4.

Wikipedia Weekly Episode 4.0 - Wikipedia Offline Editions

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

• -- Fuzheado | Talk
• -- Tawker Tawker will be away for episodes 4 and 5

Guest hosts

• --
• --1ne
• Looks like I'll have to be part of Ep 4, then. Again, pending timezones. – Chacor 09:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Daveydweeb -- I'll hold back on this, to let someone else have a turn if they want one. Add me if there's not enough interest. :)

Discussion

What should our main focus be for the week?

Danny's contest is close to being done. JoeSmack ^Talk(p-review!) 18:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

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

1. Hutter Prize via Slashdot [1] and prize site [2]

"The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge, an ongoing challenge to compress a 100-MB excerpt of the Wikipedia, has been awarded for the first time. Alexander Ratushnyak managed to improve the compression factor to 5.86 and will receive a 3,416-Euro award. Being able to compress knowledge well is believed to be related to acting intelligently."

1. AOL's Jason Calacanis - Wikipedia leaves $100M on the table (or "PLEASE Jimbo, reconsider--media philanthropy could change the world!").

Some media outlets have confused this $100 million editorial with the previous $100 million dollar "dream a little" post by Jimbo last week. They are not related whatsoever.

Feedback

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. :)