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"The Wikipedia Story"

BBC presenter Clive Anderson will host a half-hour show about Wikipedia, entitled "The Wikipedia Story". The show, scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:30 a.m. British Summer Time (10:30 a.m. UTC) on BBC Radio 4, is described as "[asking] whether Wikipedia is a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity." It includes interviews from Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, former Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry, Web 2.0 critic Andrew Keen, and singer Mike Scott, who was involved in an edit war on his own article [1]. The show will be available on BBC Radio 4's website (RealAudio link) or available as a podcast (Radio 4 Choice podcast) for about a week after its original airing.

Visa ruling incorrectly mentions Wikipedia

A Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia ruling that overturned the denial of a visa to an Armenian citizen repeatedly mentions Wikipedia, in an apparent misunderstanding:

21. It should be noted that the reference to the web site www.armeniapedia.org (the web site) is taken to be a reference to what I understand the parties to accept is a linked web site to the web site known as "Wikipedia".

The court appeared to have assumed that Armeniapedia.org was the same as, or related to, Wikipedia; some of the court's individual findings are questions about the reliability of Wikipedia, not Armeniapedia.

Briefly

The Volapük Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles.
The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
The French Wikiversity has reached 2,000 pages.
The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
The English Wikipedia has reached 150,000,000 edits and 750,000 local media files.
The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached an average of three edits per page.
The French Wikisource has reached 2,000 registered users.
The Afrikaans Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.

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23 July 2007 (all comments)

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I wonder if that Australian Federal Court stuff-up would be enough grounds for one party to go to appeal? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:06, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RealAudio link

I had some issues opening the .ram file with VLC media player, however if you select file/open network stream and use the following it plays fine: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/1130_tue.ra JACO PLANE • 2007-07-24 17:26

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