Wikipedia Weekly 3 – Interview with Jimmy Wales

The Panel

• – Fuzheado
• – Tawker
• – Zero1328
• – Daveydweeb
• —SushiGeek

Special Segment

Interview with the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales, speaking to us from St Petersburg, Florida. Topics of conversation included:

• Wikimedia Board Elections – The Board voted unanimously to elect Florence Nibart-Devouard as the Chair of the Board, Tim Shell as Vice-Chair, Erik Möller 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

1. 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.
2. Librarian John Hubbard, a user of Wikipedia, posts a detailed four-part introduction to Wikipedia for new editors, entitled “Why Wiki?“.
3. Silver Chips Online, the student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School, reports on growing student use of Wikipedia, and teachers’ acceptance of the website.
4. The official Wiki of Wikimania 2007, to be held in Taipei, has gone online.

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1. Hi, I and anothers around the world only read in English. If possible, make text versions of this amazing project

   Comment by Lugusto — October 31, 2006 @ 2:59 pm

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