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Participants:
 * Andrew Lih
 * Tawker
 * Liam
 * The Placebo Effect

This is Wikipedia Weekly... episode 43 for the week of March 10, 2008.

News

 * Call for new voices on the podcast
 * NotTheWikipediaWeekly
 * To our listeners Wikipedia Weekly is an independent, community audiocast, and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. The contents of this page are that of their authors alone.
 * Wikipedia Review tests our independence
 * Liam replies to criticism of the show with Angela Beesley
 * Latest with Jimmy, Valleywag, Danny, board, but discussed in a professional/balanced way, and not a scandalsheet
 * Valleywag publishes chat from Marsden and Wales
 * Wales comes out with on-wiki User page statement
 * Marsden puts attire on eBay for sale
 * More Valleywag stories related to leaked chat
 * Bloggers (namely Danny) blog about WMF finances and Jimmy's expenditures
 * Sue Gardner responds on blog of Danny's blog (allswool.blogspot.com)
 * Canadian Press picks up on this story, Australian shortly after
 * Associated Press picks up
 * CNET Live appearance by Sue Gardner
 * Debate from last week about 20 million articles. Lots of juicy discussion on that, and most ppl siding with Liam and not me. :) But the numbers don't lie. Let's talk about stats we have now, and hopefully stats to come from Erik Zachte now that we finally have Feb 2008 dumps (yeah!)
 * WW.com feedback
 * WW42 page
 * Raul654 on Fuzheado page
 * Ben Yates summarizes/transcribes
 * Images mentioned: Modelling Wikipedia's growth
 * See also Size of Wikipedia
 * Wiki industry -- Wikileaks, forgot to talk about that. Kaltura, which came out when we were on hiatus, and as brought up by Brianna's good blog post about this.
 * Alexandria update
 * The board has asked me to review the Wikimania security issues. I've asked Mike to commission a routine conference site assessment from a professional firm, with a special focus on issues facing LGBT participants, and within the context of us being an organization that's highly-visible and not uncontroversial (e.g., Muhammad pictures, etc.). We'll ask for an overall threat assessment, as well as a set of recommendations on how to best reduce risk. I'll report progress to the board in April. - Sue Gardner
 * Rfb and 90%

Top 100

 * Wikirage - Top 100 most edited
 * WikiCharts - Top 100 read


 * Again at the end, call for new people


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