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Episode 74: Long Strange Trips Released: 16 May 2009

WikipediaWeekly Episode 74. Wikimedia Conference Berlin.

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Participants:

• Liam Wyatt
• Andrew Lih

Topics

• Berlin Chapters meeting - m:Chapters_meeting_2009/Schedule
  • Fundraising structures
  • Trademark policy
  • Public Outreach

• Tech update
  • Berlin wrap up (OSM especially)
  • German tech contracts deadline
  • Google summer of code applicants

• Business Deal with Orange Telecom - blog post and Press release
• UNU-Merit study on readers [1]
• Usability study preliminary results [2] and they're starting to look at existing projects to incorporate [3]
• License vote [4], most people say "yes", some say "no".
  • Fuzheado's take on his trip (segue)
• Travels on book tour with Andrew
  • Austin, New York, Washington, Boston, SF, Los Angeles.
  • Harvard Berkman - on CSPAN with David Weinberger, question of licensing
  • San Francisco - met Robert Rohde, User:Dragons_flight
    • WikiWednesday talk at CitizenSpace - coworking, talked about future of WP
    • PARC visit, Ed Chi
  • Los Angeles - morning talk show started with "So you're the one who started Wikipedia!" KTLA
• Wikimania Buenos Aires August 26-28