Wikipedia Weekly Episode 1
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
- Signpost, started by Michael Snow
- Wikizine, by Walter Vermier
- Wikipedia:Announcements
- 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
- Commons delinker
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wherebot – Copyvio finding bot
- Polar exploration improvement Wikipedia:Spotlight/work
- Special:Random article + discussion
- Articles deleted NY Times article (free registration required)
- Listener feedback
- Leave on WP:WWPC – We’ll add an option to leave a voicemail for Q & A later. If you have any questions please feel free to post in the show comments and we’ll respond on a QA session.
- Regular Segments
- The World According to Wikipedia [1]
8. Lost (TV series) 11. Amish 12. YouTube 13. World War II 14. PlayStation 3 16. United States 18. North Korea 20. List of big-bust models and performers 21. Sexual intercourse 22. Naruto 25. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon 26. Christopher Columbus 27. List of sex positions 28. Wii 29. Japan 30. Sex 31. September 11, 2001 attacks 32. 2006 North Korean nuclear test 33. List of female porn stars 34. X-Men 35. List of South Park episodes 36. Deaths in 2006 37. Mark Foley 38. Clitoris 39. South Park 40. The Lord of the Rings 41. Windows Vista 42. Penis 43. Special:Booksources 44. France 45. List of Naruto episodes 46. Cory Lidle 47. Mexico 48. Masturbation 49. Make Love, Not Warcraft 50. Nuclear weapon#* Stats/numbers
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For all that we think we’ve covered the basics, I learned quite a bit from this podcast. Wikipedia, as the largest of the projects, is at the forefront in vandal fighting and many other aspects of building and maintaining a wiki. THe tools, techniques, and discoveries need to be promulgated so that other projects can take advantage of them. Even though I’m a veteran of Wiktionary, this podcast was a helpful review of some ideas and an introduction to others.
In Wiktionary, newcomers often paste in definitions and other matter from other dictionary sites, something we try to avoid. How might we get Wherebot running on Wiktionary, too?
You’ve mentioned a lot about Wikipedia as a zeitgeist and a first source for information regarding current events, but there is a project specifically for news. It’s still smaller, but if more of the Wikipedians knew about it, perhaps some of the current events followers would lend their time to helping complete it. It’s fairly clear to me that the community exists even if awareness does not, yet.
Indeed, as you begin to find your rhythm, segments on the sister projects in general would help to build Wikimedia projects into a more complete whole.
Comment by Dvortygirl — October 15, 2006 @ 11:37 pm
Lads,
Excellent work. I have to agree with Dvortygirl. A very good overview o the near latest information of things.
What I would like to see is more information about accedemic research on Wikipedia. On my blog (www.stoygeek.com) amd in my academic publishing and presenting I have covered several wikipedia topics.
Keep up the excellent work!
SG
Comment by Storygeek — October 21, 2006 @ 3:32 pm
I heard now most of the first episode, and I love it. I hope you will find enough subjects to cover a weekly episode, and I hope you will find a lot of subjects that will be interesting outside the en:pedia as well. Keep up the good work (and try to find a nice lady voice as a good supplement
Comment by Edo — October 26, 2006 @ 11:09 am
Nice stuff. You have a great radio voice, Fuzheado!
Spent a bit too long talking about vandalism for my liking, but I guess everyone’s cast will reflect their own interests.
great first cast!
Comment by pfctdayelise — October 31, 2006 @ 12:24 pm
[...] Lih’s blog posts about the partial unblock of Wikipedia in China, nor time to listen to the first episode of the newly launched Wikipedia Weekly which apparently includes a discussion about the unblocking. [...]
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