Episode 68: Wikipedia’s Nicotine High

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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2 Comments »

1. I think I’ve found a new most-ridiculous AfD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Big_Science
   Every time I visit AfD, it’s more depressing than the last time. It’s pretty much to the point now where the majority of what’s being deleted is worthwhile content (if under-referenced), and I think the AfD rate may be increasing.

   Comment by Sage (User:Ragesoss) — January 3, 2009 @ 10:43 pm

2. Sage, this may be a good topic for a dedicated podcast — State of AfD, and the new culture of inclusion/deletion. There’s hardly an episode where we don’t comment on this shift and note the latest AfD of note. Thanks for your comment.

   Comment by fuzheado — January 5, 2009 @ 3:47 am

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