An interview with Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Panel:
- Fuzheado
- Liam Wyatt
- Private Musings
- Messedrocker
- Raul654
We welcome help recording exact time codes for the following topics.
Topics:
- Board makeup
- New WMF blog
- Assume good faith and transparency
- Volunteer database
- Staff and community
- Availability of board minutes and transparency
- GFDL, Free Software Foundation, CC-BY-SA
- Method of switching license
- Challenges
- Decreasing rate of production
- Experts and Everything2
- How did Erik discover Wikipedia
- Paypal and Infoanarchy
- Developer bounties
- Jalt - jealousy altruism
- Omegawiki, Open Progress Institute
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In this episode the issues of moderation of foundation-l come to light, the “image placeholders” for non free images are debated and much more.
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* Andrew Lih
* Tawker
* [Not] Privatemusings
Topics this week
* Wikipedia unblocked in China
* 100 x 5,000
o After Wikipedia reached 10,000,000 global articles on March 27 (see archived story), the Kapampangan Wikipedia became the 100th Wikipedia to reach 5,000 articles on April 2.
o Showing the growth of smaller-language Wikipedias, the 100th Wikipedia to reach 100 articles was the Nahuatl Wikipedia in June 2005 (see archived story); June 2006 saw the 100th to reach 1,000 articles, the Venetian Wikipedia (see archived story). In April 2006, about 73.4% of existing articles were located on the Top 10 Wikipedias; since then, only 59.4% of the new articles created over the last two years were on Top 10 Wikipedias.
* Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
o effeietsanders
* Multilingual stats recap
o Hello, I would like to hear in WW more about the Wikipedia language versions, what happens in e.g. the Japanese or the Finnish Wikipedia. en:User:Ziko-en
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics
o how does Volapuk, a conlang, have 115,000 articles, 112,000 added just this year?
* Wikimedia blog
* Wikimedia Foundation board meeting
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOO
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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (Witty Lama), Privatemusings.
1:50 Donations from Sloan and Khosla
12:39 Staffing
15:21 Statistics
19:58 FlaggedRevs
39:03 Single User Login
40:35 Wikinews update - interview w/Mike Halterman
53:15 Wikimania 2009 - Buenos Aires
58:30 Top 100
- Major Boobage
- Fitna
- D.B. Cooper
