Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode11



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The Panel

 * Main hosts
 * Fuzheado | Talk
 * Tawker


 * Guest hosts


 * Daveydweeb
 * Witty lama

Topics of Conversation

 * Fundraiser raised 1 million dollars, but that's only enough for 3-4 months
 * New advisory board for Wikimedia Foundation
 * New hire - Carolyn Doran, to work as Chief Operations Officer (COO)
 * Microsoft Pays Blogger to edit it's entry on WP: from cnn.com slashdot and techcrunch.com
 * Colbert encourages vandalism to reality: Video on YouTube of the segment screencap.
 * Perhaps this petition about membership rights changes to the foundation?

Wiki Industry

 * Wikileaks is "leaked": homepage and wikileaks. There is also an article in the Sydney Morning Herald but you've got to pay for it - wittylama has a hardcopy.
 * A Million Penguins, MediaWiki powered website run by Penguin Books attempting to create WikiFiction . (When searching for this on Google, you get directed to Punta Tombo!) Folks at SFWA Writer Beware think it's weird...

Cultural Moment

 * Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Explain significance and interesting pop-references. (audio file here)

The World According to Wikipedia
If there's a lack of content then: The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia.

104 250 ± 8% 	0.1654% 	2. Anna Nicole Smith 31 500 ± 15% 	0.0500% 	7. Super Bowl XLI 31 500 ± 15% 	0.0500% 	8. Prince (musician) 29 250 ± 16% 	0.0464% 	9. Windows Vista 28 500 ± 16% 	0.0452% 	10. Global warming 27 000 ± 17% 	0.0428% 	13. Super Bowl 24 000 ± 18% 	0.0381% 	14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 22 500 ± 18% 	0.0357% 	16. Harry Potter 22 500 ± 18% 	0.0357% 	17. Heroes (TV series) 20 250 ± 19% 	0.0321% 	19. YouTube 20 250 ± 19% 	0.0321% 	22. Valentine's Day 20 250 ± 19% 	0.0321% 	23. Lisa Nowak 20 250 ± 19% 	0.0321% 	24. Chinese New Year 19 500 ± 20% 	0.0309% 	25. Aqua Teen Hunger Force 18 750 ± 20% 	0.0298% 	26. Peyton Manning 18 750 ± 20% 	0.0298% 	27. Lost (TV series) 18 000 ± 20% 	0.0286% 	28. Chicago Bears 17 250 ± 21% 	0.0274% 	29. Adolf Hitler 17 250 ± 21% 	0.0274% 	30. Cannabis (drug) 16 500 ± 21% 	0.0262% 	32. MySpace 16 500 ± 21% 	0.0262% 	33. Tony Dungy 15 750 ± 22% 	0.0250% 	34. Lists of unsolved problems 15 750 ± 22% 	0.0250% 	37. Martin Luther King, Jr. 15 750 ± 22% 	0.0250% 	38. Deaths in 2007 14 250 ± 23% 	0.0226% 	43. Wii 14 250 ± 23% 	0.0226% 	44. Scrubs (TV series) 14 250 ± 23% 	0.0226% 	45. Australia 14 250 ± 23% 	0.0226% 	48. Groundhog Day 14 250 ± 23% 	0.0226% 	49. X-Men 13 500 ± 24% 	0.0214% 	50. Barack Obama 13 500 ± 24% 	0.0214% 	51. Characters in Bleach 13 500 ± 24% 	0.0214% 	52. Bleach (manga) 13 500 ± 24% 	0.0214% 	53. Equus (play) 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	54. Tupac Shakur 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	55. Michael Jordan 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	56. The Undertaker 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	57. Italy 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	58. Cocaine 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	59. American Idol 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	60. Michael Jackson 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	61. Abortion 12 750 ± 24% 	0.0202% 	62. 24 (TV series) 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	63. Europe 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	64. William Shakespeare 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	65. List of Super Bowl champions 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	66. World Wrestling Entertainment 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	67. T-34 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	68. New York 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	69. Ugly Betty 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	70. Seven Wonders of the World 12 000 ± 25% 	0.0190% 	71. Batman 11 250 ± 26% 	0.0179% 	74. September 11, 2001 attacks 11 250 ± 26% 	0.0179% 	75. George W. Bush 11 250 ± 26% 	0.0179% 	77. Canada 11 250 ± 26% 	0.0179% 	79. IPod

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.


 * User:Jacoplane has submitted us to Digg's new podcasting service.
 * Significant comments from Episode 9:
 * Keep pushing subscription
 * Sound quality
 * MUCH better than last episode. Keep it up!
 * Oh, and do not type while on air
 * Now using WikipediaWeekly-subscription to coordinate meetings.
 * From JoeSmack: If you have IRC (I use Chatzilla) you can look at a bot-feed of anything added to Wikipedia with ‘http://’ in it - great for removing linkspam (which is a growing problem). The bot itself is named Linkwatcher (User:Eagle_101/Linkwatcher), and you can see this feed at #wikipedia-spam (freenode), or ask about it on its talk channel at #wikipedia-spam-t. It really is brilliant to see; you can just do a couple of middle-clicks from the channel and get the page dif and view the potential spam link, making it simply a matter of to revert changes or not. You might mention more of this in next epsiode; i know they are terribly over-worked and could use more volunteers.


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