Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode68

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Participants: Fuzheado, Witty Lama, Tawker and ^demon

Topics
 * Usability project, funded by frank stanton
 * WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM (Chad blogged on this: On Wikitext and WYSIWYGS
 * General UI clutter/cleanup/issues?
 * German federal archive releases a ton of images
 * Slashdot covers it too


 * Australian Bureau of Statistics goes CC-by
 * The UK tries to emulate Australia for technical stupidity "for the children" of course. -- Tawker (talk) 23:13, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * We've already discussed this before on episode 49
 * Foundation Press Release Plus Q&A
 * Interesting stats that prove the streisand effect? and
 * Good blogposts on the topic Danny Wool, durova, Brianna Laugher, nocleanfeed.com
 * News reports: Guardian uk, noting that the CIA has already cleared the image before.
 * IT'S OVER
 * Australian plans for censorship are struggling, partially on basis of this week's expereinces
 * Number of editors appears to have stalled :-(
 * and "WikiTruth sticks the boot in
 * Wikiposters, the new way of getting Commons content - from Brianna's Blog.
 * Foundation produces video tutorials for editing
 * Florence Devouard, user:anthere, has been awarded a knight of the National Order of Merit by the French Govt. [fr.]

 Podcaster's Picks:
 * Wikihorror - a blog about WP's 'best' vandalism diffs.

2009 Predictions


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