Episode 68: Wikipedia’s Nicotine High

Saturday January 03rd 2009, 2:20 pm
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Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt and Chad Horohoe team up to bring you the latest year-end Wiki news and commentary.

Topics include:

  • 1:25 Usabililty project, Stanton Grant
  • 3:15 WYSIWYG problem
  • 6:00 Editing: templates and infoboxes overload
  • 12:45 Dragonsflight statistics, user slowdown?
  • 14:50 Clay Shirky, and the need for community
  • 22:15 Detailed stats
  • 24:50 This week in censorship
  • 31:35 Should WMF/community support filtering? For schools, countries?
  • 41:50 Australian NoCleanFeed situation
  • 45:13 Recent changes for Barack Obama and government in general
  • 48:19 Florence Devouard National Merit award
  • 50:26 Ordering images from Commons
  • 59:18 Fair access to ordering/advertising?
  • 1:06:00 German federal archive
  • 1:10:00 Predictions for 2009
 
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Episode 67: Fundraising Interview

Monday December 15th 2008, 5:25 am
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Talking with the whole team in San Francisco about the fundraiser, the Stanton usability grant and how the office itself is run.

 
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Wikipedia Weekly 66: Searching high and low

Thursday December 04th 2008, 7:30 am
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This week the panel discusses Google’s SearchWiki, ethical concerns for Wiki-research, fundraising update, upload limit increases, arb-com elections, the German edition shutdown and more.

 
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Episode 65: Censorship while you Sleep

Thursday November 20th 2008, 3:37 am
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Fuzheado, Witty Lama and (a sleepy) Tawker team up to bring you the latest Wiki news and commentary.

Topics include:

Wikipedia’s US election coverage; an interview with NoCleanFeed.com on government sponsored censorship in Australia; the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser; changes to the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 and its relation to Creative Commons; feedback/complaints on the United Nations University survey; the abuse filter; is Wikipedia Weekly NPOV?; podcaster’s picks; and more.

 
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Episode 64: Annual Report

Saturday November 01st 2008, 7:35 am
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Fuzheado, Tawker and Witty Lama team up to bring you the latest Wiki news and commentary.

Topics include:

The first ever Annual Report, the General User Survey currently underway, statistics indicating that the community on mailing lists is in decline, experiments in changing RfA, plans to censor the internet in Australia and statistics about types of Featured Articles.

 
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Episode 63: Interview with Florence

Friday October 03rd 2008, 5:54 am
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From the archives - a previously unpublished interview with our former Board Chair recorded just after her return from representing us at the World Economic Forum and still deciding whether to remain on the board.

 
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Episode 62: Chrome-plated Roundtable

Saturday September 13th 2008, 5:07 am
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The roundtable convenes for the first time after Wikimania.

  • 00:00 Sarah Palin article edits
  • 00:06 Erik Zachte, statistics and Infodisiac blog
  • 00:12 Amazon Sound Unwound
  • 00:17 WYSIWYG discussed on Ben Yates blog
  • 00:24 Chrome, Google’s new browser
  • 00:31 New official Wikipedia Write API, and explanation of why it’s important
  • 00:37 Wikiscanner and signbot, Wired wins award
  • 00:44 How powerful is Wikipedia, Google Pagerank
  • 00:49 Whither the state of core tech articles in Wikipedia?
  • 00:51 Frieda Brioschi resigns from board
  • 00:52 Wikiquote, should it be disbanded
  • 00:56 Chief program officer for WMF
  • 01:00 Flagged revisions now the norm at German Wikipedia
 
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Episode 61: Corpus Linguistics

Thursday August 21st 2008, 5:03 am
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Recorded before the closing ceremony of Wikimania ‘08, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed talks to Liam Wyatt about his linguistic analysis work of en-Wikipedia. By analysing the frequency of “hedger” and “booster” words in both articles and in talk pages he compares our writing quality favourably to a PhD level.

 
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Episode 60: Diplopedia

Tuesday August 12th 2008, 7:14 pm
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Recorded at wikimania: Liam wyatt talks with Eric Johnson, from the office of eDiplomacy at the U.S. Department of State about their internal wiki - [[Diplopedia]]. A two year old media-wiki project for all of America’s diplomats and embassies.

 
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Episode 59: Interview w/Sue Gardner

Monday August 04th 2008, 4:18 pm
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Liam Wyatt interviews Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikimania 2008.

 
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