Fuzheado, Witty Lama and (a sleepy) Tawker team up to bring you the latest Wiki news and commentary.
Topics include:
Wikipedia’s US election coverage; an interview with NoCleanFeed.com on government sponsored censorship in Australia; the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser; changes to the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 and its relation to Creative Commons; feedback/complaints on the United Nations University survey; the abuse filter; is Wikipedia Weekly NPOV?; podcaster’s picks; and more.
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Fuzheado, Tawker and Witty Lama team up to bring you the latest Wiki news and commentary.
Topics include:
The first ever Annual Report, the General User Survey currently underway, statistics indicating that the community on mailing lists is in decline, experiments in changing RfA, plans to censor the internet in Australia and statistics about types of Featured Articles.
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From the archives - a previously unpublished interview with our former Board Chair recorded just after her return from representing us at the World Economic Forum and still deciding whether to remain on the board.
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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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Recorded before the closing ceremony of Wikimania ‘08, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed talks to Liam Wyatt about his linguistic analysis work of en-Wikipedia. By analysing the frequency of “hedger” and “booster” words in both articles and in talk pages he compares our writing quality favourably to a PhD level.
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Recorded at wikimania: Liam wyatt talks with Eric Johnson, from the office of eDiplomacy at the U.S. Department of State about their internal wiki - [[Diplopedia]]. A two year old media-wiki project for all of America’s diplomats and embassies.
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Liam Wyatt interviews Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, at Wikimania 2008.
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A two part episode:
- 1. Interview with Jimmy Wales, from the Windsor Palace hotel
- 2. Final Day-after - Reflections from a Van, from Alexandria to Cairo
- - Memorable moments
- - Wiki-research-L mailing list revival
- - Next year in Argentina
- - Wikipedia Academy, for newbies
Commentators:
- Phoebe Ayers
- James Forrester
- Austin Hair
- Andrew Lih
- Liam Wyatt
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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.
Wikipedia Weekly 57: Wikimania 2008, Day 3 roundup [33:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1178)
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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.
Wikipedia Weekly 56: Wikimania 2008, Day 2 roundup: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1661)
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