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 (if we do it early enough... say thursday night I'm in... otherwise... nada) -- Tawker 18:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

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."

2. 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.

3. German Wikipedia has a small crisis on their hands when their fifth German writing contest results in a controversial winner. [3]

   Topic number one was Methodical culturalism, an article about contemporary philosophical theory which won the fifth German Wikipedia writing contest. While members of WikiProject philosophy celebrated the jury decision and proposed it as a candidate for featured articles, a storm of protests broke out. Many Wikipedians complained the article was obscure, incomprehensible and irrelevant. The debate became even more emotional when one of the jury members of the contest deserted his colleagues and joined the protesters. He even went so far as to propose the article for deletion on AfD leading to an edit-war and the protection of the article - without the deletion notice. The featured article candidature was cancelled prematurely when the vote count reached 18:30 and the article was moved into the review section. In sum: Wikipedia theater at its best - or worst?

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. :)