For those of you looking for Knol news
http://wikipediaweekly.org/2007/12/18/episode-39-knol-pointer/ was our episode a while ago but it’s still relevant today.
Enjoy
Episode 58: Wikimania 2008, Jimbo and Reflections
A two part episode:
- 1. Interview with Jimmy Wales, from the Windsor Palace hotel
- 2. Final Day-after – Reflections from a Van, from Alexandria to Cairo
- - Memorable moments
- - Wiki-research-L mailing list revival
- - Next year in Argentina
- - Wikipedia Academy, for newbies
Commentators:
- Phoebe Ayers
- James Forrester
- Austin Hair
- Andrew Lih
- Liam Wyatt
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Episode 57: Wikimania 2008, Day 3 Roundup
From the roof of the Windsor Palace Hotel, overlooking the bay of Alexandria, Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester and Austin Hair sum up the final day of Wikimania 2008.
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Episode 56: Wikimania 2008, Day 2 Roundup
Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester discuss the day’s activities in detail, among a rambunctuous crowd, including an interview with Phil Birken about flagged revisions. OpenStreetMaps, Wikipedia’s stats relating to the news, and a few corrections.
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Episode 55: Wikimania 2008, Wikiversity’s Cormac Lawler
Looking over the sea, we discuss the role of Wikiversity withing the Wikimedia projects. Where they’ve come from and where they’re going.
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Episode 54: Wikimania 2008, Day 1 Roundup
Andrew Lih and Liam Wyatt summarize the day’s events, including the morning keynote by the head of the Alexandria Library, the afternoon talk by Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation board panel (moderated by Andrew Lih and James Forrester). Sessions about surveys, lightning talks, writing statistics and community collaboration.
And thanks to Ben Yates at Wikip for summarizing our previous episode!
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Episode 53: The Day Before Wikimania
Liam Wyatt and Andrew Lih, attending Wikimania, finally make it to Alexandria, Egypt. They talk about the environment of the city, the new library, meeting Wikipedians before the hectic conference starts.
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Episode 52: Off to Alexandria we go
We talk about all things “A” — the Arbcom tussle, the crisis among Administrators, and a preview of Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria.
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