Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode8
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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 8
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The Panel
Currently, it's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to five folks.
Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and be regular listeners of other podcasts.
- Main hosts
- Guest hosts
- Daveydweeb
- - Zero1328 Talk? - Likely a last minute decision, since I'll be back Friday night.
- Planned guests
- Mathias Schindler of German Wikipedia (Germany) - CONFIRMED
- Anthere, Florence Devouard, Chairperson of Wikimedia Foundation, Board of Trustees (France)
- For discussion of WP:EA deletion
- FireFox
- HighwayCello
- EWS23
- Celestianpower - CONFIRMED
- Natalya
- Robth (original nominator for deletion)
Discussion
Agenda
This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.
Time of Recording
Proposed: 1500 UTC, Saturday, December 2, 2006 To accommodate two European participants
Introduce the panel
That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.
See the script
News
- ArsTechnica reports that experts find Wikipedia to be more accurate than non-experts do. This will probably be in the next Signpost.
- -- "Article-free Sunday" -- on the German Wikipedia, aimed at proving existing content rather than producing new articles. Links in rather nicely with our 1.5M discussion last episode...
- Chinese-language Wikipedia presents different view of history -- widely reported story condemning inconsistencies between zh: and en: Wikipedias.
From the Signpost
- Steward elections begin on meta. Should include an explanation of the role of stewards, their history, etc.
- Software updates: "Whitelisting" now available to produce autoblock-exempt IPs; auto-edit summaries; new feature to revert edits other than the last one;
- Tunisia blocks Wikipedia, ironically, since they hosted the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society which involved members of the WMF.
Lighter side
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.
If lacking material, we could look at another Top 100 page, such as The Top 100 Vandalised pages on Wikipedia.