Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode10

Episode 10: Fundraising 28 December, 2006

WikipediaWeekly Episode 10.

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The Panel

Currently, it's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks.

Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and have listened to other podcasts.

Main hosts

• Fuzheado | Talk
• Tawker

Guest hosts

• Witty lama - Liam in Lund, Sweden

Agenda

This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.

Recording particulars

• Time: European-friendly time since most guests from
• Host Skype: User:Tawker in Vancouver, Canada

Introduce the panel

That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.

See the script

News

• Fundraiser to start started on December 15
• Bloggers' Top-Cited Wikipedia 2006 Entries: Nielson BuzzMetrics (as in, Nielson TV ratings...?) report on the most linked-to Wikipedia articles among bloggers. The top 3 were, in order:

1. Web 2.0
2. Steve Irwin
3. Mark Foley Scandal

• Shoplifting was featured on Digg.com
  • "Who knew shoplifting techniques could be found on Wikipedia? Every possible shoplifting method, from "bag switching" to "milkshake subterfuge" can be found here."
  • What other articles are "instructive" on not-so-savory topics? List of racial slurs, others.
• WikiCast has launched: podcast based loosely around Wikipedia content and made by Wikipedians. See Category:Wikicast material on Commons. (?)

Wiki industry

"The Citizendium Foundation and the participants in the Citizendium project make no representations about the reliability of this article... The following article has been approved"

• Citizendium update:
  • First live article on Biology:
    • Criteria, significance?
    • Compare with Wikipedia version?
    • Immaturity of approval process and/or templates? See image to right: contradiction, and redundant statement. Needs significant clarification before release.
    • Draft pages are now users, such as this one, but don't have a namespace of their own.
  • Updated statistics:
    • 659 "CZ:Live" articles
    • 1 approved, 1 up for approval (this thread fleshes out the approval process a little)
    • 136 editors, 431 registered users (is this the number of humans, or usernames?)
    • 3-400 edits/day
    • Leading workgroup, Health Sciences, has 21 editors (the blog post is already out of date) and 6 authors
    • Most viewed pages at Citizendium:

1. Main Page‎ [5,574]
2. Biology‎ [1,338]
3. Talk:Biology‎ [912]
4. Chiropractic‎ [902]
5. Category:CZ Live‎ [631]
6. Citizendium Pilot:Discipline Workgroups‎ [604]
7. Barbara McClintock‎ [319]
8. Citizendium Pilot:High priority articles for pilot‎ [278]
9. Citizendium Pilot:Notice Board‎ [256]
10. User talk:Larry Sanger‎ [234]

• Wikia
  • Openhosting.com

From the Signpost and Wikizine

• [tEmplate] - On most projects, the first letter of an article title starts with a capital letter, but some subjects are correctly spelled with a starting lowercase letter. There is a way around this by using a special template that changes the appearance of the title with JavaScript.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase - the template
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/iPod - the template in action

• Redirect can jump to an anchor in the article. [1]

• WikiWorld Comic Redshirt - Signpost has a nice interview with Greg Williams
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-12-11/WikiWorld

Wikipedia in the News

• TIME Magazine has named "You" the person of the year. You as in Youtube, user generated content, of which Wikipedia is one of the major players.

  "It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."

• Steven Johnson mentioned

Cultural Moment

Danny introduced a new segment last week, A Cultural Moment - Anthem for Doomed Youth, with the audio read by Shanel. This week we're featuring a poem read by User:Dvortygirl, called The Schoolboy by William Blake.

Feedback

If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say.

• Several comments about recording quality - yeah, tough to get right. But we'll try Levelator this time.
  • We seriously need better microphones, for MessedRocker in particular. Shall we all chip in a few bucks? Daveydweeb (^chat/_review!) 07:18, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
• From the WP:WWPC talk page: We need to talk less about feedback. Obviously, we don't need to talk about this point for too long. ;)

The World According to Wikipedia

This would be a quick, light-hearted discussion of any particularly funny page-rankings we see on The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia. There's at least two or three minutes' worth of humour in that.