Wikipedia Weekly 5 - Arbcom, WP 0.5 and “Wiki”
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- Main hosts
- Guest hosts
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Overview
News
- Viruses found in Wikipedia
- Hackers in the German Wikipedia place links to a supposed fix for a worm. Instead, the site contains a virus.
- Arbitration Committee elections begin
- As of recording there are 26 candidates signed up. Former member Kelly Martin comes to talk with us.
- Growth slowing?
- David Cannon reports October the lowest number of new articles in a year. See Wikipedia:Announcements
- Growth rising in Chinese Wikipedia
- The rate of registering users in the Chinese wikipedia have more than doubled, since it was unblocked on November 9.
- Wikipedia 0.5
- The article review process has ended for this release of Wikipedia on CD. Martin Walker comes to talk about the upcoming release.
- How do you say “Wikipedia”?
- The pronunciation of the Hawaiian word “Wiki” is different compared to how most people say it. Local Hawaiian CableModem comes to talk about the proper pronunciation.
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i think that the decrease in article count per month and a ‘deletionist attitude’ is in part due to some vandal tools becoming more honed; for instance, over at #wikipedia-spam LinkWatcher will let you know when anything with an http:// is added. this clearly shows articles, for instance, named [[The Band Kids]], added by [[User:TheBandKids]] who added http://www.thebandkids.com . Boom, gone. VP1.3 and VP2.0 are making it really easy to spot and ban vandals before they can create beaucoup cruft. I can rack up over 500 vandal edits towards this in half a day with VP1.3.
Comment by j — November 15, 2006 @ 9:46 pm
True, it’s making edit count a almost trivial figure, AntiVandalBot itself gets around 5K reverts a day when it’s running full tilt. Of course, with the site being more popular, we get more silly vandals and its just boom, more bot work.
Comment by Tawker — November 16, 2006 @ 7:29 pm
About the advertisements:
I agree that the Google Search box holds the most promise and is the most useful. But I think the text ads could work as well, you can find a proof-of-concept here.
But I think there is something that is a lot more exciting than ads, namely “Crowd Funding” (like SellaBand.com for example), read my comment on Jimmy Wales’ Blog here. I later found out that Larry Sanger had already written a good article on this subject The Role of Content Brokers in the Era of Free Content. (Maybe you could do another special with Larry Sanger on this subject).
But to come back to the subject of ads, I thought that maybe advertisement revenue could be used to jumpstart a crowd funding initiative. Once it gets going and more people see how it works and join in then I think there won’t be a need for ads anymore. Wikipedia could be funded by taking a small part from the “crowd fund”, the rest would be used to free up content, like eBooks, music, software, etc. However this might be better suited for Citizendium instead of Wikipedia, because buying content from the ‘elite’ might be seen as a bad thing by some Wikipedians? Maybe it is good to discuss the issue of crowd funding first, because there might be other options to jumpstart this.
Comment by Isaac — November 17, 2006 @ 9:31 pm