Wikipedia Weekly: Episode 2: Chapters..

The Panel

• – Fuzheado
• – Tawker
• – James Forrester
• – Daveydweeb
• —Shadow1

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:

• Chapters – A conversation led by chair of the chapters committee Delphine Ménard.

News

1. The final phase in selecting the new logos for Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikiversity has started, and will continue until October 31.
2. 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.”
3. 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?

   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)

4. Math captcha and anti spoof protection on usernames
5. $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.
6. Wikipedia Newbies Tutorial: http://tawker.com/tutorials/

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4 Comments »

1. Hi,

   I there code for adding the webbased player to any website playing the most recent edition of WikipediaWeekly? I would like to add that to en.wikizine.org.

   Greetings,
   Walter

   Comment by Walter — October 24, 2006 @ 8:19 pm

2. Andrew! I can’t believe you did it there too. Wiki*M*edia Foundation dammit.

   Comment by notafish — October 24, 2006 @ 8:22 pm

3. Ah, and you might want to link to my meta page, rather than my en.wikipedia page

   Comment by notafish — October 24, 2006 @ 8:24 pm

4. Delphine, I changed to the meta link for you. =)

   Comment by Daveydweeb — October 25, 2006 @ 5:05 am

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