The continuation of a (big) roundtable news discussion with Andrew Lih, Andrew Phillips, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester, Durova, and Sage Ross. Topics include: the future of Wikipedia, challenges for 2009 and predictions for the coming year.
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A (big) roundtable news discussion with Andrew Lih, Andrew Phillips, Liam Wyatt, James Forrester, Durova, and Sage Ross. In this episode:
- RNA research peer-review and Wikipedia
- Study: Are Wikipedians grumpy?
- Admin uses ability to view deleted edits to obtain test “answer key”, posts on Facebook
- Philosopher finds that Wikipedia has good “epistemic consequences”
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Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt and Chad Horohoe team up to bring you the latest year-end Wiki news and commentary.
Topics include:
- 1:25 Usabililty project, Stanton Grant
- 3:15 WYSIWYG problem
- 6:00 Editing: templates and infoboxes overload
- 12:45 Dragonsflight statistics, user slowdown?
- 14:50 Clay Shirky, and the need for community
- 22:15 Detailed stats
- 24:50 This week in censorship
- 31:35 Should WMF/community support filtering? For schools, countries?
- 41:50 Australian NoCleanFeed situation
- 45:13 Recent changes for Barack Obama and government in general
- 48:19 Florence Devouard National Merit award
- 50:26 Ordering images from Commons
- 59:18 Fair access to ordering/advertising?
- 1:06:00 German federal archive
- 1:10:00 Predictions for 2009
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