Wikipedia Weekly 19
Hosts
- Andrew Lih
- User:Tawker (eventually)
- David Still (User:Daveydweeb)
- User:MessedRocker
- Liam Wyatt (User:Witty lama)
Rundown
- New Mission and Vision Statements for the Wikimedia Foundation
- Jimmy Wales attacked by
monkeyssatirical journalists; “The Chaser’s” ten question. (Video of the event can be found here) - Categories now have not one, but two uses: Catfishing, and Catgraph
- The results of various vandalism studies
- Plans for the Wikimania Lounge
- Freebase: a new, semantic Wiki
- “Stabbing Polonius“; Nick Carr’s take on Wikipedia and its competition
- MessedRocker’s Unreferenced Biographies of Living People project
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the modern wikipedian song at the end was _hilarious_!
Comment by J — May 5, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
Glad Tawker’s team won!
I was fervently rooting for the Dallas Stars…oh well. There’s always next year. Or the next.
Comment by Jon — May 6, 2007 @ 12:55 am
The comment about the Dutch Wikipedia
deleting articles because they are not
Dutch, is pure nonsense. Maybe sometimes
people will nominate it like that, but
that doesn’t mean it will be deleted.
I like to hear if something is deleted with only with only the reason; ‘not being Dutch’.
Please double check your information,
before you say something.
Comment by Jeroenvrp — May 7, 2007 @ 11:23 am
What’s up,
Very entertaining podcast. On the subject of Freebase and similar tools for semantic wikis: you could be forgiven for not knowing about it, since it was only released 3 days before your podcast, but my Semantic Forms MediaWiki extension allows for form-based editing, similar to the concept of Freebase, for Semantic MediaWiki data. All the promise of semantic tagging, but with a user-friendly interface. It’s currently running only on my site, Discourse DB, but I believe it’s coming to some other sites soon.
Comment by Yaron — May 10, 2007 @ 8:49 pm