Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode9

Episode 9: New Board Members Released: 11 December, 2006

WikipediaWeekly Episode 9.

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A partial transcript will be available here. Please help by copyediting or adding to it!

The Panel

Currently, it's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks.

Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and be listeners of other podcasts.

Main hosts

• Fuzheado | Talk

Guest hosts

1. Yeah, if the timing's right, as usual. – Chacor 15:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Planned guests

• Mathias Schindler of German Wikipedia (in Frankfurt Germany)
• Danny Wool of the Wikimedia Foundation, located in Florida
• Messedrocker, aka James, in the state of New Jersey

Agenda

This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.

Time of Recording

TBD

Introduce the panel

That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.

See the script

News

• New board members - Kat Walsh, Oscar, Jan Bart
  • Kat Walsh, Mindspillage
    • George Mason University School of Law, focusing on technology and IP law.
    • Arbitration Committee on the English Wikipedia
  • Oscar van Dillen, professor of music and a musical composer living in Rotterdam, was president of Wikimedia Nederlands
    • Professionally, Van Dillen is a musician and composer, teaching World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.
  • Jan Bart de Vreede, Kennisnet of the Netherlands
    • Spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management.
  • Oscar/Kat effective immediately, Jan Bart on December 15
• Audited financial statements
• Law professor predicts Wikipedia's demise within five four years.
  • Stable versions? Would articles need to be frozen anyway?
  • Often used stat - "Wikipedia Relies on a Relatively Small Number of Editors"
    • Jimmy Wales reportedly said that 0.7% of Wikipedia's users have made 50% of all Wikipedia edits and 1.8% of users have written more than 72% of all articles. TRUE?
• Google Earth incorporates Wikipedia info
• NYC meetup - (Messedrocker)
• Mainz - professor of book science (Mathias)
• "Gender bias" mailing list breakout, Wikichix mailing list? - (Fuzheado)
  • Started with Gender bias
  • Creation of Wikichix
  • Should an exclusive list for females only be hosted on WMF servers?
• Charter Debate in Esperanza and approaching elections

Maybe

• Amazon invests in Jimmy Wales' Wikia.

Cultural Moment

Danny introduces a new segment, A Cultural Moment - Anthem for Doomed Youth, with the audio read by Shanel.

Feedback

If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say.

• We were wrong: There have been two other MfDs with shortcuts before.

• From Liam - There is now a FA counter at the main page. I suggested this (and user:banyanTree implimented it) in response to the disucussion about quality/quantity in ep.7. It would also appear that a new bot will also be created to automatically count FAs and update relevant stats (meaning Raul654 no longer has to do this manually).

The World According to Wikipedia

This would be a quick, light-hearted discussion of any particularly funny page-rankings we see on The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia. There's at least two or three minutes' worth of humour in that.