Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode107

Episode 107: Executive Director search goes on - 12 December 2013 Released: TBD * Listen on archive.org • Metadata page on archive.org

Downloads

This episode available at: [1]

Planned time

• Google Hangouts, Thursday, Dec 12, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [2]
• Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [3]

Participants:

• Fuzheado
• User:Tawker
• Sage Ross
• Keilanawiki
• Kevin Gorman
• Ocaasi
• Guerillero
• add your name here

Roundtable Topics

• Arbcom election is over - Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2013/Candidates
• Executive director search - no selection, keeps going on - m:Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Update_9_December
• GLAM
  • Kevin Gorman the new UC Berkeley Wikipedian in Residence
  • Fuzheado's Wikipedia class in the Spring 2014
    • Turning 12-week syllabus into something shorter - [4]
• Finnish Wikipedia study - [5]
• Traffic report in Signpost - concerns about editorial commentary
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Traffic_report
  • Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Traffic_report
• Who's Bigger site - using Wikipedia and other SEO data to rank importance. Valid?
  • http://whoisbigger.com/entity/Category:Women_scientists
  • Commentary on Wikipedia's gender imbalance:

    "We believe they would be more pleased to hear our results concerning the relative significance of the men and women appearing in Wikipedia, which we write about in ``Who's Bigger. Over the past 300 years, the average women in Wikipedia is notably more significant than the average man. Our results reveal that women required greater accomplishments (analogous to 4 IQ points in the mean) to be recognized than men, up until very recent history."

• Should WMF accept Bitcoin (redux)
  • Mailing list discussion brought up again - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-December/129121.html
• Wikimania 2015 Jury convened
  • Is South Africa inevitable?

News and notes

• Cool research into WP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Recent_research

Top articles this week

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TOP25

Index

• 00:00:00 – Introductions
• 00:01:19 – ArbCom elections
• 00:07:10 – Search for a new Executive Director
• 00:19:28 – Kevin Gorman WiR at University of California, Berkeley
• 00:35:45 – Study of the Finnish Wikipedia
• 00:39:31 – The Signpost traffic report and Bitcoin
• 00:54:15 – Wikimania 2014 and 2015
• 00:59:42 – WhoIsBigger.com
• 01:10:11 – recent research in The Signpost, multimedia, selfies, the Stub Contest, and the Commons photo challenge