Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Episode5/script

THIS IS WIKIPEDIA WEEKLY EPISODE 5, FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13, 2006.

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WELCOME TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF WIKIPEDIA WEEKLY, I'M YOUR HOST ANDREW LIH, ALSO KNOWN AS USER FUZHEADO ON THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA.

WE'RE COMING TO YOU THIS WEEK WITH SOME NEW FOLKS.

ON OUR PANEL THIS WEEK -

DAVEYDWEEB FROM CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA

ZERO FROM BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

KELLY MARTIN, FROM THE US STATE OF ILLINOIS

MARTIN WALKER, FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK, ALSO IN THE US

OTHER USERS

News

 * Arbitration Committee elections begin, more than a dozen candidates currently signed up. The elections themselves start on December 4. Surely JamesF would be a good person to talk about this with us?
 * Wikipedia-download . Viruses in Wikipedia? (get Jimbo to comment?)

Questions for Martin

 * Why don't you tell us a little about Wikipedia 0.5?
 * Is this an official project? Do you have the support of the Wikimedia Foundation?
 * What kinds of articles are you planning to include?
 * Are you including images?


 * Article reviewing finished today -- how many articles did you end up selecting?
 * How do you think Wikipedia 0.5 will be distributed?
 * ShipIt?


 * When do you think the CD will be released?
 * User:BozMo has been working on a similar project: a CD edition of Wikipedia for the SOS Chidrens' Charity, that contains around 2,000 	articles. Are there any major differences between your two projects?
 * How similar to Wikipedia will 0.5 look? The original SOS Children CD lacked any of the look-and-feel of Wikipedia, but will this be 	different in 0.5?
 * Are there any plans for a DVD release?