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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The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (Witty Lama), Privatemusings.
1:50 Donations from Sloan and Khosla
12:39 Staffing
15:21 Statistics
19:58 FlaggedRevs
39:03 Single User Login
40:35 Wikinews update - interview w/Mike Halterman
53:15 Wikimania 2009 - Buenos Aires
58:30 Top 100
- Major Boobage
- Fitna
- D.B. Cooper
7:37 Liam on Wikia
11:12 Valleywag on Wales
21:47 Feedback
42:11 Wii moment
52:52 wrapup wikileaks
54:51 Kaltura
55:27 Alexandria security
56:24 RfB
It took days to compress the file acceptably and to upload it on various unstable connections, but Daveydweeb’s audio tutorial is now online. The video below is compressed into H.264/AVC video, which should play in most media players, and I’ll get a Theora version online if I’m ever able to.
Enjoy! 
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I’ll take a moment from the normal course of events to post a person wrap-up of Wikimania 2007. My plane for Sydney leaves in twenty minutes, so I only really have a few minutes to write up some notes on the conference.
First and foremost, the last five days have seen 1,352 downloads from either WikipediaWeekly.com, or, in the case of my lightning talk video, YouTube. Tawker provided us with a very impressive internet backbone, and I’m proud to say a number of things about it: that it was insanely fast, that it was utterly reliable, that we never even scratched the surface of its capabilities, and that it allowed us to serve a record amount of content in the given time period.
For reference, that’s an average of one download every eleven minutes, with a peak of one every five minutes or so. For a podcast as esoteric as ours, that’s impressive.
Secondly, I’ll take a moment to thank the rest of the podcasting crew. Andrew Lih (who, despite what his profile picture would have you believe, no longer sports a Chairman Mao hairdo) provided us with an amazing host and driving force, while Liam Wyatt proved to be a proficient interviewer and efficient content updater each time we released an episode. MessedRocker was a fun and helpful co-panelist, and JamesF… well, he didn’t mock me all the time. 
Thanks to everyone who said “hi” to us in our messy little corner, and especially to those who stole JamesF’s wafer sticks at my insistence.
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