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)1900 UTC isn't a great time, that's 3 a.m... – Chacor 10:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)- Witty lama
Year in Review
Foundation changes: m:Board of Trustees
- January
- Userbox controversy - Kelly Martin deletes bunches of controversial userboxes. Eventually the budding userbox industry is effectively shut down. 5 Sysops removed by jimbo for warring over a controversial box.
- Fundraising concludes with $380,000
- Google logo links to their search for Braile. We're top hit - massive editing, vast improvement. Slashdotting effect x1000.
- Wikipedia registered as offical TM.
- February
- Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy leads to fierce debate over censorship on WP. compromised reached by hosting the image, but in low quality.
- US political staff editing rival's bio-pages continue. Gets petty. People eventually fired over it.
- March
- "Office action" becomes controversial when Jack Thompson apparently said he was defaimed and the page was locked by Danny W.
- More than a month after WP fixed all problems raised in the Nature study, Britannica finally responds - by publicly complaining about Nature's methodology!
- 1Million Articles reached with Jordanhill railway station. Suggestion of placing a plaque there one day. Only 6 months more required to reach 1.5M. In June the 1000th FA is promoted - Iranian peoples.
- May
- A month after French Wikiquote is deleted amid legal problems, the german WP wins it's court case to be able to publicly identify hacker Tron. A landmark biography/censorship decision.
- August
- Wikiversity officially announced. Now live in 11 languages.
- Wikimania kicks off in U.S.
- September
- Citizendium announced. Now live with a few articles.
- October
- Jimmy resigns as chair of Wikimedia board.
- November
- WP in China unblocked and then reblocked as the Great Firewall continues.
- December
- Fundraiser begins. Matched donations possible due to financial audit showing WM's non-profit status.
Agenda
This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along. See the script
Recording particulars
- Time: 1900 (UTC) 2006-12-29
- Host Skype: either User:Tawker in Vancouver, Canada, OR whoever can fill in for him
News
- Fundraiser status
- Update on totals
- Matching funds
- Fundraising comments
- en.wikipedia passes 100,000,000 edits
- That's... rather a lot.
- All of Esperanza proposed for deletion.
- Consensus appears to be "delete" - here. Should make reference to our former discussion on the deletion of Esperanza's games.
Wiki industry
From the Signpost and Wikizine
Wikipedia in the News
- Search.Wikia.com ("Search Wikia") -- Wiki-inspired search engine
- It won't be called Wikiasari - that was an older project, now defunct
- NOT a Wikimedia project
- Amazon is NOT involved
Cultural Moment
- Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Explain significance and interesting pop-references. (audio file here)
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
- MUCH better than last episode. Keep it up!
- Oh, and do not type while on air
- Now using {{WikipediaWeekly-subscription}} to coordinate meetings.
- 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.