Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode62



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Rundown

 * user:Young Trigg edits Sarah Palin's article - a lot - before the announcement of VP status. Statistics analysis. Same with Biden.


 * Amazon.com launches SoundUnwound. News item from Wired.


 * If we can't have WYSIWYG then MediaWiki needs syntax highlighting - from the Wikipedia blog.


 * Google releases Chrome. GerardM experiences


 * write API is now live! (Fuzheado, Tawker) Explain what an API is.


 * "Community-Curated Works" (as opposed to "user-generated content") to define what we do.


 * Just how powerful is Wikipedia (a bunch of google rankings. interesting to compare them w/ knol)


 * Frieda resigns from the board


 * Should Wikiquote be disbanded?


 * New position at the foundation office - Chief Program Officer.


 * German Wikipedia now displaying flagged revisions to anonymous.

currently Flagged Revisions is running on de-WP, ru-WP and en-wikinews. While ru-WP and en-wikinews had a strawpoll before this was turned on, de first had the test and then we had a straw poll in August to decide about how to proceed. There were three options and any user could vote for any of those options but only once for any option. The options were: 1) Disable Flagged Revs. 2) Keep Flagged Revs and IPs see the current version and 3) Keep Flagged Revs and IPs see the latest flagged revision. The results are (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Weiterf%C3%BChrung_der_gesichteten_Versionen):

1) 362 Users 2) 197 Users 3) 708 Users.

So, since last week, IPs see by default the latest flagged revision.


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