Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode69

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Participants:
 * Fuzheado
 * Witty Lama
 * Tawker
 * Jdforrester
 * Durova
 * Ragesoss

Roundtable Topics

 * This week in Censorship
 * RNA Biology - science journal requires authors to edit Wikipedia
 * Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded?
 * Admin uses ability to view deleted edits to obtain test "answer key", posts on Facebook
 * Philosopher finds that Wikipedia has good "epistemic consequences"
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Podcaster's Picks

 * Fuzheado: BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant (and see Articles for deletion/2009 BART Police Shooting)
 * Ragesoss: Big Science (and see Articles for deletion/Big Science)
 * Choice of article could be launching point into bigger discussion below, or something you find interesting

Critical Issues and 2009 Predictions

 * Deletionism
 * IS Wikipedia news/journalism, distinction?
 * Wikipedia becoming more like a conventional encyclopedia?
 * Effects of deletion (discourages authors, maintains exemplar standards, restores low-hanging fruit, destroys quirky content that flourished early on...)
 * Jimbo in 2003: "if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accommodate them" (see this current AfD)
 * Policies in conflict? Phil Sandifer's argument that NPOV and NOR contradict for some types of content (especially in the humanities)
 * Arbitration
 * Conflict of interest, undue influence?
 * Rick Warren and The Purpose Driven Life
 * Stratification of Wikipedian society?

Links

 * Did you know/Darwin Day 2009
 * Flagged Revisions poll
 * The term for out-of-proportion Wikipedia articles that escaped us: Wikigroaninng.


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