Episode 62: Chrome-plated Roundtable

Saturday September 13th 2008, 5:07 am
Filed under: Audio, Episodes, MP3, Wikipedia

The roundtable convenes for the first time after Wikimania.

  • 00:00 Sarah Palin article edits
  • 00:06 Erik Zachte, statistics and Infodisiac blog
  • 00:12 Amazon Sound Unwound
  • 00:17 WYSIWYG discussed on Ben Yates blog
  • 00:24 Chrome, Google’s new browser
  • 00:31 New official Wikipedia Write API, and explanation of why it’s important
  • 00:37 Wikiscanner and signbot, Wired wins award
  • 00:44 How powerful is Wikipedia, Google Pagerank
  • 00:49 Whither the state of core tech articles in Wikipedia?
  • 00:51 Frieda Brioschi resigns from board
  • 00:52 Wikiquote, should it be disbanded
  • 00:56 Chief program officer for WMF
  • 01:00 Flagged revisions now the norm at German Wikipedia
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1 Comment »

  1. Thanks for the plug on community-curated works. :)

    Regarding Wikiquote, the very first post I wrote on my blog was about why I thought Wikispecies & Wikiquote would be the first projects to “leave the family”, so to speak. Wikiquote is not well-defensible from the WMF Mission or Vision.

    Comment by pfctdayelise — September 22, 2008 @ 11:59 am

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