Episode 41: Setting the record straight
Witty Lama talks with Angela Beesley. Topics include: What’s it like to have an article about yourself; Wikimania ‘08 is getting started and ‘09 in the bidding stage; the Foundation’s advisory board, who they are and what they do; and clearing up some misconceptions about Wikia including no-follow, Kaltura and Search.
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There is a fairly extended silence between 8′30” and 9′00”.
Liam I am kind of surprised you would bring up the nofollow link issue. To me that is the biggest non-issue brouhaha raised by SEO-obsessors ever.
otherwise, interesting as usual
Comment by pfctdayelise — February 6, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
Yes indeed there’s a gap there, damn – post production is very fiddly. There’s about 100 cuts in that episode (the average) so I must have inadvertently moved the rest of the clip across on the scrubber bar and not noticed.
As for the No-Follow – I’m not so sure. It won’t make any difference on the grand scale, but I for some commercial organisations to be getting something whilst others don’t just because they’re wikis seems to go in the face, somewhat, of the neutrality concept…
Comment by wittylama — February 6, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
So we are not to be confused about the relationship between Wikia and Wikipedia and then you do a major discussion about Wikia Search, promoting a Wikia company on the Wikipedia podcast. And Angela wonders why people are confused?
Comment by DogBiscuit — February 6, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
If you remain confused by the relationship between the two organisations after listening to the whole episode then it’s hardly my fault – I think Angela spelt it out pretty clearly…
Wikipedia Weekly frequently discusses websites and projects that are not from the foundation and/or are commercial. This is hardly promotional ’special treatment’. The Search discussion was relevant in three ways:
1) The context was recent developments in Wikia
2) It set aside confusion about the relationship of using it on-wiki
3) It was an open source project within the sphere of interest of many wikipedians.
Comment by wittylama — February 11, 2008 @ 9:21 am
Angela will be happy, here article is gone.
Comment by Walter Vermeir — February 14, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
Correction; it is [[w:en:Angela Beesly]] that redirects to Wikia. But there is still the article [[w:en:Angela Beesley]] and that is the article.
Comment by Walter Vermeir — February 14, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
I loved your double-square brackets comment! Hilarious!
Comment by Tim Vickers — March 2, 2008 @ 12:42 am
I wonder what Angela thinks about the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation filed — two years in a row — Form 990 with the IRS that misstated the “business relationships” held by multiple members of the Wikimedia Foundation, thanks to Wikia. Was it deliberate, or just incompetence?
Comment by Gregory Kohs — March 27, 2008 @ 6:00 pm