Wikipedia Weekly 10 - Fundraising

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)
  • Spoken version from Wikisource by Dvortygirl
• Feedback (33:33)
  
  • Less feedback, more content
  • Sound quality
  • New linkspam bot on FreeNode (#wikipedia-spam)

 

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3 Comments »

1. background noise and stuff like that is way down, good job guys.

   Comment by J — December 28, 2006 @ 5:51 pm

2. Much easier listening to the show when there are fever people, too.

   T

   Comment by Another J — December 31, 2006 @ 2:13 pm

3. Tawker, stop saying “pound” as in “#”. It makes sense only to American English speakers.

   Comment by Mark — January 5, 2007 @ 12:27 pm

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