Wikipedia Weekly: 15
This episode sees Liam, known as Witty Lama, catching up with Rama’s Arrow and Ragib to talk about contributing to Wikipedia from and Indian and Bangladeshi perspective. Topics include their growing collection of Featured Articles, the success of the Indian WikiProject, the difficulties of Wikipedia usage in South Asia and local-community projects which use Wikipedia
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All of a sudden we’ve gone from Wikipedia Semimonthly to Wikipedia Biweekly.
Comment by Sage — March 14, 2007 @ 11:53 pm
It’s the average that counts.
Comment by Daveydweeb — March 15, 2007 @ 2:13 am
As Liam says at the end of the interview, I heard Rama’s Arrow’s voice for the first time … even though I’ve communicated with him hundreds of times via wikipedia, and collaborated on many articles. Thanks to Liam for bringing us together :).
Comment by Ragib — March 15, 2007 @ 2:51 am
Nice chat. Points out perfectly the status of Wikipedia in South Asia, and also some of the problems. Hope more featured articles wil be churned out from the region, and South asian language wikipedias will attain better status. Regards.
Comment by Dwaipayan Chakraborti — March 15, 2007 @ 4:50 am
Wow!
Comment by Gangadhar Bhadani — March 15, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
I second Bhadaniji’s comment. For some stange reason I expected Nirav to have a full on American accent but I was wrong!
Comment by DaGizza — March 18, 2007 @ 6:29 am
well I’m glad to see it’s been well received!
I found the interview really revealing myself and I’m sure that most people don’t know about 1/2 of the stuff we discussed.
I hope that this little foray into the different language/cultures associated with wikipedia will help increase the (unfortunately quite small) inter-language cooperation/awareness.
Comment by wittylama — March 20, 2007 @ 10:01 am
Need more hardhitting and in depth coverage of wiki wars
Comment by Hindutvavadi — March 21, 2007 @ 6:40 am
Really well done, guys!! This is a fantastic episode that reminds me of why I’m attracted to Wikimedia and the potential I think it has to improve people’s lives all over the world. Really, really fantastic. And the Indian WikiProject, uber-impressive. :] 50 featured articles! I still couldn’t even begin to write one.
Best of luck with the DVD!
Comment by pfctdayelise — March 26, 2007 @ 8:19 am
PS. this was tons more interesting than 99.9999999% of the AFD discussions and other petty crud that will be irrelevant after a month. hope to see (hear) more like it.
Comment by pfctdayelise — March 26, 2007 @ 8:23 am
We need more episodes like this to remind us of why we are here. We don’t need to lull ourselves into thinking that wikibureaucracy is the point of the project.
Great work Ragib and Nirav!
Comment by YellowMonkey — March 30, 2007 @ 6:54 am