Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode99

This episode available at: Youtube Planned time Participants:
 * Downloads
 * Google Hangouts, Saturday, Aug 31, 130pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Jake Ocaasi
 * Fuzheado
 * James F.
 * Emily
 * Jake Ocaasi

Roundtable Topics

 * Chelsea Manning moved back to Bradley Manning after a vote(!) - Talk:Chelsea_Manning/August_2013_move_request
 * Slate said at the time: "Wikipedia Beats Major News Organizations, Perfectly Reflects Chelsea Manning’s New Gender" (doh) -
 * Truthdig praise: "How Wikipedia Edited Pvt. Manning’s Gender Without Spectacle" (doh again) -
 * We're also getting meta: Chelsea_Manning_gender_identity_media_coverage
 * Jeff Tuel, unknown quarterback for Buffalo Bills and his newly created article - http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/jeff-tuel-buffalo-bills-wikipedia/
 * Black_Twitter - is this original research, or has the term become widely used enough?
 * News and notes
 * SSL switch-over & Erik Möller's piece about "Wikimedia and the politics of encryption" - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-August/127830.html
 * New enwiki Checkusers and Oversighters
 * Wiki Loves Monuments starts tomorrow (1 September) - +Antarctica, China, United Kingdom (first timers)
 * Top articles this week
 * Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Traffic_report
 * Observations - Bollywood influence
 * Since we last did this commentary on WW about 3 years, what's changed? Decline of blogging, rise of Reddit/Twitter/Google doodle? Where did Naruto go?
 * Podcasters' picks
 * Fuzheado - Interesting Wikisym 2013 writeup, about 100 ppl showed up in Cyberport HK, ahead of Wikimania - Signpost - Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Recent_research
 * James F. - first real improvements as part of the new Multimedia team in Wikimedia Engineering coming out: the new galleries, and the lightboxes for videos. More to come! Multimedia and Multimedia/2013-14_Goals - See WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Technology_report for demonstrations.
 * Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) - Wikipedia Library portal redesign WP:The_Wikipedia_Library, go create a profile. Question, what role should Wikipedia play in the broader open access movement?
 * Emily - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352877/description/Probing_Wikipedia_editors_hive_mind_for_rules_on_cooperative_behavior


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