An interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia and chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
Panel
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Topics
- Board restructuring
- Moderation of Foundation-L
- Stuart West new board member
- Ayn Rand
- Hayek and Reason magazine article
- Corporate use of wikis
- Value of Wikipedia to historians
- Research idea - use of language in articles vs. time of editing
- Andrew Keen debate
- John Seigenthaler panel
- Erasing obvious vandalism from database
- BLP - Brian Peppers and limiting article sizes
- “Arbcom” equivalent for content
- Wikia search
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An interview with Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Panel:
- Fuzheado
- Liam Wyatt
- Private Musings
- Messedrocker
- Raul654
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Topics:
- Board makeup
- New WMF blog
- Assume good faith and transparency
- Volunteer database
- Staff and community
- Availability of board minutes and transparency
- GFDL, Free Software Foundation, CC-BY-SA
- Method of switching license
- Challenges
- Decreasing rate of production
- Experts and Everything2
- How did Erik discover Wikipedia
- Paypal and Infoanarchy
- Developer bounties
- Jalt - jealousy altruism
- Omegawiki, Open Progress Institute
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In this episode the issues of moderation of foundation-l come to light, the “image placeholders” for non free images are debated and much more.
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* Andrew Lih
* Tawker
* [Not] Privatemusings
Topics this week
* Wikipedia unblocked in China
* 100 x 5,000
o After Wikipedia reached 10,000,000 global articles on March 27 (see archived story), the Kapampangan Wikipedia became the 100th Wikipedia to reach 5,000 articles on April 2.
o Showing the growth of smaller-language Wikipedias, the 100th Wikipedia to reach 100 articles was the Nahuatl Wikipedia in June 2005 (see archived story); June 2006 saw the 100th to reach 1,000 articles, the Venetian Wikipedia (see archived story). In April 2006, about 73.4% of existing articles were located on the Top 10 Wikipedias; since then, only 59.4% of the new articles created over the last two years were on Top 10 Wikipedias.
* Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
o effeietsanders
* Multilingual stats recap
o Hello, I would like to hear in WW more about the Wikipedia language versions, what happens in e.g. the Japanese or the Finnish Wikipedia. en:User:Ziko-en
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics
o how does Volapuk, a conlang, have 115,000 articles, 112,000 added just this year?
* Wikimedia blog
* Wikimedia Foundation board meeting
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOO
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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (Witty Lama), Privatemusings.
1:50 Donations from Sloan and Khosla
12:39 Staffing
15:21 Statistics
19:58 FlaggedRevs
39:03 Single User Login
40:35 Wikinews update - interview w/Mike Halterman
53:15 Wikimania 2009 - Buenos Aires
58:30 Top 100
- Major Boobage
- Fitna
- D.B. Cooper
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7:37 Liam on Wikia
11:12 Valleywag on Wales
21:47 Feedback
42:11 Wii moment
52:52 wrapup wikileaks
54:51 Kaltura
55:27 Alexandria security
56:24 RfB
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The panel returns, with Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (WittyLama), and Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect).
Topics include Muhammad pictures on Wikipedia, Foundation audit and new hires, State of mailing lists, Citizendium’s license, Steward election results, and Print Encyclopedias.
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Witty Lama talks with Angela Beesley. Topics include: What’s it like to have an article about yourself; Wikimania ‘08 is getting started and ‘09 in the bidding stage; the Foundation’s advisory board, who they are and what they do; and clearing up some misconceptions about Wikia including no-follow, Kaltura and Search.
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Witty Lama interviews Tim Vickers, the director of the Molecular and Cellular Biology project. Including discussions science on WP, outreach programmes to the scientific community, ProteinBoxBot’s articles, how the Human Genome sequencing project reaches WP, the American Chemical Soceity’s wiki, and thoughts on RfA.
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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), James Hare (Messedrocker), Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect)
Rundown
1:30 Carolyn Doran, COO
14:51 Google Knol, should Wikipedia be afraid?
23:38 World of Deletion - Angela Beesley
26:35 Articles for Deletion with Placebo
34:15 Widgets in MediaWiki
36:00 Jimbo comment on citing Wikipedia
39:53 New users cannot move pages
40:39 Steward elections, main page deleted
41:17 Arbcom elections
41:52 Rollback for normal users
42:33 Top 100
46:51 Contact
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