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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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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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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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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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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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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This week, we talk about the possibility of adding 2 million new articles with a bot, stalking, collaboration and usernames.
- 0 intro
- 1:30 Wikipedia Story Wiki
- ~07:00 - Powerset
- 12:00 Disclaimers
- 23:30 Massive bot additions?
- 34:00 Single user login
- 38:30 Offensive usernames
- 48 Colloboration tool
- 48 Board elections
- 59 Stalking
- 1:07 Illustration project
- 1:12 Area51
- 1:31 END
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We discuss Wikipedia Story, and invite listeners to help edit what will become the final chapter of the book that will be published in 2009. And we discuss a surprising finding related to [[Philosophy]].
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The rundown
+1:45 Board and chapters, US chapter?
+17:20 Wikicouncil
+25:30 DE flagged versions
+32:15 Lawsuits - WorldNetDaily “FBI is investigating”
+34:51 Album cover and fair use
+37:23 Explicit images in Wikipedia, censorship, who our audience is
+40:15 Languages and fair use images
+47:40 Sexual pictures, venereal disease
+52:55 Should Wikipedia create “safe for” feeds?
+54:44 “Use mine it’s bigger”
+55:48 Who should decide what’s “censored”?
+57:44 NSFW NSFS lists
+1:03:17 Would Fuzheado support this in China?
+1:07:04 Appropriate content for [[Penis]] article
+1:08:45 Valleywag on Erik Moeller
+1:11:31 GerardM comments on US vs Europe
+1:13:34 Quote from Erik’s text
+1:16:04 Chad on “Internet has no mercy”
+1:18:02 Wikipedia article revisions re: Jimmy interview
+1:24:57 Wikirage - American Idol, pop culture, London mayor, Tamil
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An interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia and chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation
Panel
We welcome help recording exact time codes for the following topics.
Topics
- Board restructuring
- Moderation of Foundation-L
- Stuart West new board member
- Ayn Rand
- Hayek and Reason magazine article
- Corporate use of wikis
- Value of Wikipedia to historians
- Research idea - use of language in articles vs. time of editing
- Andrew Keen debate
- John Seigenthaler panel
- Erasing obvious vandalism from database
- BLP - Brian Peppers and limiting article sizes
- “Arbcom” equivalent for content
- Wikia search
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