Wikipedia Weekly 8: Esperanza
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…
- Chinese-language Wikipedia presents different view of history — widely reported story condemning inconsistencies between zh: and en: Wikipedias.
- 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?
- Tunisia blocks Wikipedia, ironically, since they hosted the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society which involved members of the WMF.
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Re: The talk about Wikipedia as social network
The type of prevalent communication on Wikipedia is actually stigmergic. In fact, viewing the communication being done between users by changes to their environment make Wikipedia one of the greatest online social networks of all time.
Comment by Typewriter — December 11, 2006 @ 12:39 pm