Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode11
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Wikipedia Weekly Episode 11
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The Panel
Currently, it's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks.
Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and have listened to other podcasts.
- Main hosts
- Guest hosts
- Daveydweeb 07:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
- Let's see if I can finally make it for another one, heh. – Chacor 01:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
- Witty lama
Discussion
Agenda
This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along. See the script
Recording particulars
- Time: Try for Friday night, UTC
- Host Skype: User:Tawker in Vancouver, Canada
News
- Fundraiser status
- Update on totals
- Matching funds
- Fundraising comments
Wiki industry
From the Signpost and Wikizine
Wikipedia in the News
- "Wikipedia vs Women" -- WikiChix in the news.
- "Wikipedia users still mad about tech" -- Wikipedia's most popular topics are still about technology. Compare this with something like Scholarpedia, a Wikipedia alternative that focuses almost entirely on technology, but has a very different editing model.
- " Neilson's 'most popular' lists released for 2006.
- Wikiasari revived in the form of Wikisearch -- only, it won't be called Wikiasari
Cultural Moment
- Perhaps Jabberwocky?
Year in Review
From Daveydweeb's notes, please expand:
- ADVERTISING
- Raised by "The Times" in January: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1962714,00.html
- The article calls Wikipedians "wikitopeans". Irrelevant, but funny.
- Calacanis proposes that Wikipedia allow advertising as a means of revenue-raising
- Raised by "The Times" in January: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1962714,00.html
- ACCURACY
- Fallout from the Siegenthaler controversy from late 2005
- Comparisons between Wikipedia and Britannica abound
- Fallout from the Siegenthaler controversy from late 2005
- ACCESS
- Chinese govt bans Wikipedia in early January
- Third time the site was blocked in 2 years, blocked again later in the year
- Chinese govt bans Wikipedia in early January
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.
- User:Jacoplane has submitted us to Digg's new podcasting service.
- Significant comments from Episode 9:
- Keep pushing subscription
- Sound quality
- The problem is now largely distortion, not volume levels. All users need to join a soundcheck before we begin, and those with crap microphones need new ones (MessedRocker is the only one with a major problem, AFAICT Daveydweeb (chat/review!) 10:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC))
- Oh, and do not type while on air
- We should advertise recording times to our listeners, to ensure that they can participate in "call ins" or something similar. The {{WikipediaWeekly-subscription}} template would be ideal for this, and we need to use IRC as well.
- From JoeSmack: If you have IRC (I use Chatzilla) you can look at a bot-feed of anything added to Wikipedia with ‘http://’ in it - great for removing linkspam (which is a growing problem). The bot itself is named Linkwatcher (User:Eagle_101/Linkwatcher), and you can see this feed at #wikipedia-spam (freenode), or ask about it on its talk channel at #wikipedia-spam-t. It really is brilliant to see; you can just do a couple of middle-clicks from the channel and get the page dif and view the potential spam link, making it simply a matter of to revert changes or not. You might mention more of this in next epsiode; i know they are terribly over-worked and could use more volunteers.
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.