Thanks to an updated version of our subscription template at Wikipedia, it is now possible to easily co-ordinate participants in upcoming episodes of the podcast. The template now counts down the hours to the next recording session, starting a day or so beforehand, allowing participants across multiple timezones to easily contribute together.
Keep an eye on the template if you’re interested in coming on the show, or join us in #wikipediaweekly on FreeNode. All we ask is that you have a working microphone, a steady internet connection and the most recent version of Skype – and, of course, something to say.
Note that the countdown does not update correctly if you’re not logged in to a Wikipedia account!
Hosts
- Fuzheado – Andrew Lih
- Tawker
- Witty lama – Liam
News
- Fundraising drive 2006 begins (5:04) – For the first time, the Wikimedia Foundation will be receiving matched gifts alongside individuals’ donations.
- Bloggers’ top Wikipedia entries for 2006 (9:58) – as announced by Neilson BuzzMetrics
- “Shoplifting” at Wikipedia featured on Digg.com (14:16)
- WikiCast launched (20:10)
- Time names “You” person of the year (22:40)
- Citizendium update (26:50)
- Wikia’s openhosting (28:45)
- From the Signpost (29:50)
- A Cultural Moment, From Wikisource — The Schoolboy (31:50)
- Feedback (33:33)
- Less feedback, more content
- Sound quality
- New linkspam bot on FreeNode (#wikipedia-spam)
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Shopping I’m afraid had to come first, WW10 should be out sometime this week (I hope)
On the other hand, if we have any audio editors out there, we have a nice position with your name on it! We offer audio files and audio files. An internet connection is required (not a pneumatic tube).
Hosts
- Fuzheado – Andrew Lih
- Presroi – Mathias Schindler
- MessedRocker – James
- Danny – Danny Wool
News
- New board members – Kat Walsh, Oscar, Jan Bart (Board page)
- Kat Walsh, Mindspillage
- George Mason University School of Law, focusing on technology and IP law.
- Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia
- Oscar van Dillen, professor of music and a musical composer living in Rotterdam, was president of Wikimedia Nederlands
- Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.
- Jan Bart de Vreede, Kennisnet of the Netherlands
- Spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management.
- Oscar/Kat effective immediately, Jan Bart on December 15
- Audited financial statements (11:11)
- New fundraiser starting December 15 (21:45)
- Law professor predicts Wikipedia’s demise within five four years. (28:19)
- Stable versions? Would articles need to be frozen anyway?
- Often used stat – “Wikipedia Relies on a Relatively Small Number of Editors”
- Jimmy Wales reportedly said that 0.7% of Wikipedia’s users have made 50% of all Wikipedia edits and 1.8% of users have written more than 72% of all articles. TRUE?
- Extension to Stable Versions? (35:04)
- Google Earth incorporates Wikipedia info (37:31)
- NYC meetup (39:53)
- Report from Messedrocker
- Photos 1, 2, 3, 4
- Report from Mainz (42:47)
- Mathias speaks to students of book science
- “Gender bias” mailing list breakout, Wikichix mailing list? (45:05)
- Started with Gender bias
- Creation of Wikichix
- Feedback
- We were wrong:Other Miscellany for deletion had shortcuts (46:47)
- From Liam – There is now a FA counter at the main page. I suggested this (and user:banyanTree implimented it) in response to the disucussion about quality/quantity in ep.7. It would also appear that a new bot will also be created to automatically count FAs and update relevant stats (meaning Raul654 no longer has to do this manually). Featured article counter by BanyanTree (48:10)
- The World According to Wikipedia (51:30)
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Hosts
- Andrew Lih
- Tawker
- Daveydweeb
- Presroi – Mathias Schindler
- MessedRocker
- Celestianpower
- Robth
News
- ArsTechnica reports that experts find Wikipedia to be more accurate than non-experts do. This will probably be in the next Signpost.
- – “Article-free Sunday” — on the German Wikipedia, aimed at proving existing content rather than producing new articles. Links in rather nicely with our 1.5M discussion last episode…
- Esperanza’s MfD. Esperanza was nominated for deletion by User:Robth, citing — among other things — the concern that it gives new users the “idea that Wikipedia place for socializing rather than working on an encyclopedia”. It was closed early by User:Kim Bruning after the MfD was edited more than 600 times in just two days.
From the Signpost
- Steward elections begin on meta. Should include an explanation of the role of stewards, their history, etc.
- How many candidates? 15..
- Any issues so far?
- Software updates: “Whitelisting” now available to produce autoblock-exempt IPs; auto-edit summaries; new feature to revert edits other than the last one;
- First type of Whitelist in Wikipedia?
- Spam whitelist?
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