An interview with Jennifer Riggs, the newly hired chief program officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. We discuss her background, her introduction to the Wikimedia community and what she sees as first priorities.
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After long journeys by Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) on his book tour for The Wikipedia Revolution, and Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) to Europe for the Chapters meeting, here’s the weekly roundtable on recent news.
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Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) interviews researcher Ed Chi of Palo Alto Research Center’s Augmented Social Cognition group about their latest research on Wikipedia’s growth and community health. PARC’s latest study gets behind the numbers of Wikipedia’s slower article production.
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Liam wyatt (Witty lama) talks with Sebastian Moleski (SebMol) – the head of the Wikimedia Deutschland – about: the upcoming all-chapters meeting in Berlin; the German chapter’s projects; and his reasons for being a Wikimedian.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode71
Shameless plugs galore followed by:
Flagged Rev’s requested; CopyFraud and CopyFAIL; Request for new fileformats on WikiMedia; Britannica goes for 20 minutes; Mozilla open-video grant; The Abuse Filter and Commons Picture of the Year.
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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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Talking with the whole team in San Francisco about the fundraiser, the Stanton usability grant and how the office itself is run.
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This week the panel discusses Google’s SearchWiki, ethical concerns for Wiki-research, fundraising update, upload limit increases, arb-com elections, the German edition shutdown and more.
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