The Panel
Special Segment
Interview with the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, speaking to us from St Petersburg, Florida. Topics of conversation included:
- Wikimedia Board Elections РThe Board voted unanimously to elect Florence Nibart-Devouard as the Chair of the Board, Tim Shell as Vice-Chair, Erik M̦ller as Executive Secretary, and Michael Davis as Treasurer. Jimmy Wales assumes the title of Chairman Emeritus of the Foundation.
- Communications – Talking on the matter of communication between users, and the difficulty of involving new Wikipedias in the community
News
- Advertising on Wikipedia? HipMojo presents a thought experiment, using Wikipedia’s rising popularity according to the latest ComScore rankings to calculate the economic value of Wikipedia.
- Librarian John Hubbard, a user of Wikipedia, posts a detailed four-part introduction to Wikipedia for new editors, entitled “Why Wiki?“.
- Silver Chips Online, the student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School, reports on growing student use of Wikipedia, and teachers’ acceptance of the website.
- The official Wiki of Wikimania 2007, to be held in Taipei, has gone online.
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The Panel
Special Segment
Coverage of the October 19, 2006 Wikimedia Foundation retreat in Frankfurt, Germany. Wikimedia board of trustees, chapter heads, and other Wikipedians of note will assemble to discuss the future of WMF. Fuzheado will be there, and to take advantage of the gathering of folks in one locale, we can any number of segments, focusing on:
News
- The final phase in selecting the new logos for Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikiversity has started, and will continue until October 31.
- Larry Sanger’s Wikipedia fork, Citizendium, has been in the news of late, begins its pilot today. The currently invite-only project will apply a peer-review process to existing English Wikipedia content, and re-publish it under the GFDL. The text can therefore be shared between the two projects over time. Currently no public access is allowed to Citizendium, even read-only, to avoid overloading the servers during this period. Sanger said that the pilot will initially consist of “ten editors, three constables, six authors, and me.”
- IE7 adds Wikipedia to it’s list of search engines “http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx#” “Search the free encyclopedia ” – no Encarta option… is Microsoft slowing down on Encarta?
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- See Encarta’s encyclopedia article [1], same as Britannica and World Book (no links – you might be able to access it via your local library)
- Math captcha and anti spoof protection on usernames
- $100 million copyright fund provokes discussion
- In a mailing list post on Sunday, Jimbo Wales discussed a possible scenario—what copyrighted works would the Wikipedia community want purchased and released under a free license, with a budget of US$100 million? Wales indicated that an anonymous donor might be willing to purchase a number of works and freely license them.
- Wikipedia Newbies Tutorial: http://tawker.com/tutorials/
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For good reason, we didn’t have quite enough time to pack in all of the goodness. We’re working across 4 timezones and it’s making life a little funner than usual as we’re working in content from the Wikimedia Foundation retreat in Germany. We’ve got an amazing interview with various members of the Wikimedia chapters (the list is a semi secret for now), you can’t miss it – you’ll just have hold on a second while we record the discussion and commentary.
Update: We’ve just entered post production, mixing it all together etc, we should have it out within a few hours.
Update 2: Post production has finished, the podcast will be up soon.
Update 3: It’s up!
Yes, you can now view Wikipedia on your iPod. Matt Swann (the author) will be popping by to give us the inside scoop!
Also on Archive.org – in case my bandwidth frys
- Introduction of the panel
- Andrew Lih User:Fuzheado, active on English Wikipedia located in China. Currently writing a book about Wikipedia and its community.
- Andrew2 aka User:Tawker, of Tawkerbot2 and currently located in Canada. Is not writing a book about Wikipedia yet… his blog isn’t paper worthy yet
- We’ll go by Wikipedia usernames, because there are way too many Andrews in the Wikipedia universe.
- Introduction to news sources
- Latest news
- Board elections – Erik Moeller elected, Kat/Mindspillage and Oscar finished second and third.
- Taiwan location for Wikimania 2007
- Chinese unblocking Wikipedia
- Tor anonymous proxy blocking…. is it a good pratice
- No more @ signs in usernames, because of spamming, breaks stuff – [username@foobar.com] – New accounts on the WMF-wikis can not longer be created if the username contains the @-symbol. Existing users who have that symbol in there username can still login but only temporary. All these users need to request for a username change. Contact a local bureaucrat to do that or ask a steward if your wiki does not have a bureaucrat. (Soure: Wikizine)
- [CategoryTree] – On the category-pages there is now a function added that lets users browse through the lower category levels from the higher category. There is an option to “expand” the category. This makes it much more easy to navigate and find the category you are looking for without the need to actually request the different layers of the category. This function works only if javascript is enabled. If not, the “+” symbol appears but does not work. Those users can still use the categories the traditional way. (Source:Wikizine)
- Bots
- Polar exploration improvement Wikipedia:Spotlight/work (more…)
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Is our current logo (the one for iTunes) – we’re having an open logi time. Anyone can submit a logo for Wikipedia Weekly, only a few tiny criteria.
- 300×300px and 144×144px are the two sizes iTunes uses, it should look good in those sizes.
- No using any WikiMedia logos, that’s Trademark infringment
- It should look good
Thanks to JWSchmidt for our current logo… it looked better than the text I had in there 
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