Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode36

Episode 36: Issues of the Fortnight Released: December 1, 2007

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Participants:

• Andrew Lih
• Tawker
• Witty lama
• The Placebo Effect

WikipediaWeekly Episode 36.

News

• (See fortnight)
• Dictionary of Sydney Witty Lama got a job!
  • Discussion of Open content licenses: are more websites using them?
• French court rules that Wikipedia isn't held accountable for content posted by users. [1]. Signpost coverage
  • Author plagiarizes article from Wikipedia [2]
• Student newspaper embarrassed that article was not only plagiarized from, but even used Wikipedia [3]
• Feature updates
  • Anonymous page creation didn't happen, Signpost coverage
  • New Feature: Patrolled pages
• Current state of the fundraiser?
  • Just short of 1 million dollars, total budget of 4.6 million
  • Fundraising Blog [4]
• Arbcom 101 [5]
  • Arbcom elections update?
• Raul654 selects someone else to act as a proxy and help promote articles to featured status. Featured articles

Top 100

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