Wrapping up Wikimania
I’ll take a moment from the normal course of events to post a person wrap-up of Wikimania 2007. My plane for Sydney leaves in twenty minutes, so I only really have a few minutes to write up some notes on the conference.
First and foremost, the last five days have seen 1,352 downloads from either WikipediaWeekly.com, or, in the case of my lightning talk video, YouTube. Tawker provided us with a very impressive internet backbone, and I’m proud to say a number of things about it: that it was insanely fast, that it was utterly reliable, that we never even scratched the surface of its capabilities, and that it allowed us to serve a record amount of content in the given time period.
For reference, that’s an average of one download every eleven minutes, with a peak of one every five minutes or so. For a podcast as esoteric as ours, that’s impressive.
Secondly, I’ll take a moment to thank the rest of the podcasting crew. Andrew Lih (who, despite what his profile picture would have you believe, no longer sports a Chairman Mao hairdo) provided us with an amazing host and driving force, while Liam Wyatt proved to be a proficient interviewer and efficient content updater each time we released an episode. MessedRocker was a fun and helpful co-panelist, and JamesF… well, he didn’t mock me all the time. 
Thanks to everyone who said “hi” to us in our messy little corner, and especially to those who stole JamesF’s wafer sticks at my insistence.
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Hope you guys all got out safe/on time, because there’s a storm headed right for Taipei…
Comment by Chacor/NSLE — August 6, 2007 @ 9:44 am
Great stuff! I haven’t had a listen to any of them yet, but simply quantity-wise, it’s impressive by itself. Would y’all consider creating a podcast of the keynote speech, for those who either have Skype and don’t use it, or don’t want to download Skype? It would be good to have in a MP3 format.
Comment by Nick Moreau — August 7, 2007 @ 7:01 pm
I listened (after holidays!) to most of the stuff. Some of the podcasts were a bit messy, guess that this is due to the short timeframe you had during wiki-mania. I liked the interviews the most, thanks for doing all this for us!
Comment by Edo de Roo — August 27, 2007 @ 8:30 pm