Wikipedia Weekly: 16
It spent a while in the editing suite, but here it is. Enjoy
News
*Jimbo’s letter to New Yorker published
I am writing to apologize to “The New Yorker” and Stacy Schiff, and to give some follow-up concerning Ryan Jordan (Editors’ Note, March 5). When I last spoke to “The New Yorker” about the fact that a prominent Wikipedia community member had lied about his credentials, I misjudged the issue. It was not O.K. for Mr. Jordan, or Essjay, to lie to a reporter, even to protect his identity. I later learned more about the deceptions involved and asked Mr. Jordan to resign from his positions of responsibility at Wikipedia. He has since resigned from his position at Wikia as well. Mr. Jordan is a wonderful and thoughtful young man who made a series of very bad judgments. I consider him a friend, and I hope that the world will allow to move forward in peace and dignity to regain his honor through a life well lived. Wikipedia is built on trust and love. Our trust has been broken, and only love can rebuild it. The community has begun discussing a proposal of mine that we adopt some verification measures for claimed credentials, so that Wikipedia may further improve from this painful experience.
* Hiring of Bastique, Cary Bass
* Web 3.0 article gets attention
* Alex Beam’s column in the Boston Globe “My sticky Wiki” – Calls citizendium “Wikipedia with adult supervision”
Wikimania
* “Wikimania Lounge” ideas, Wikipedia Weekly hopes to go to Taiwan
Michael Eisner’s New company “Vuguru” – live article-creation
Wiki Industry
* Gaming Wikia and other sites launched – Interview with Angela Beesley
* Danny Hillis Freebase
* Citizendium update, response to criticisms
The World According to Wikipedia
* More 300 (film) popularity
* 18. Saint Patrick’s Day
* 24. Sinbad (actor)
Cultural Moment
*”Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrol
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I thought it was a good podcast. I liked the live article editing. I just wanted to note something. When you were talking about gaming wiki and the bias towards the wii, I couldn’t help but think about the fact that Wii is featured in English Wikipedia. Just another way of showing bias.
Comment by The Placebo Effect — March 30, 2007 @ 8:19 pm
The feed is still broken in Debian Amarok. =/
Comment by WWWWolf — March 31, 2007 @ 8:02 am
I am hoping to go to Wikimania. I would love to help out with any Commons related stuff.
BTW, your joking about Wikimedia/Wikipedia (did I hear ‘Wikipedia Foundation’ a couple of times?
) reminded me of a recent discussion on the commons-l list:
me (talking about Commons material being used elsewhere on the web):
>>
Ubuntu desktops:
http://art.ubuntu.com/main.php?g2_itemId=592
(although ‘Wikipedia Commons’… argh…almost!)
>
I suspect thats a battle that we’re not going to win.
Perhaps we should change our name to match perceptions?
>
I agree. And also ‘Wikipedia Books’, ‘Wikipedia Source Library’,
‘Wikipedia News’, ‘Wikipedia Dictionary’ and of course all managed by
the ‘Wikipedia Foundation’.
>I’m waiting for wikipedia encyclopedia. I hear its going to be very
in-depth with lots of articles!
Comment by pfctdayelise — April 1, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
oop, ok, some interesting formatting going on there… not sure what happened…
Comment by pfctdayelise — April 1, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Hi guys. I really appreciate your podcast as a brief overview of what is going on in the Wikipedia sphere, and your take on it. I also really love how you engage with other language versions, in deed I feel this is some of the most valuable that you could do. I’m always frustrated that in any article in English media about the meaning or use of Wikipedia, they only discuss the English Wikipedia and it’s specific problems or potentials… Every language Wikipedia is its own community, with its own ideosyncracies, conflicts, innovations and personalities, and I’d love to hear more about this.
Specifically, I’d love for you to find some people from the Chinese wikipedia and talk about things like the unification of the simplified and traditional character Wikipedia, which was a huge thing, both technologically and how they managed to get the two communities to work together (not just two, many – Malaysia, HK, Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan, etc)… especially since for example Malaysia and Indonesia – whose languages are almost identical – have been asked to merge, but both communities refused.
Thanks and keep it going. looking forward to great material from the WikiMania too.
stian (houshuang on en)
Comment by Stian Haklev — April 10, 2007 @ 4:09 am