Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode109

Episode 109: Wiki-PR, MP4 RFC, Art museum editathon, RFA - 5 February 2014 Released: TBD * Listen on archive.org • Metadata page on archive.org

Downloads

This episode available at YouTube: [1]

Planned time

• Google Hangouts, Wednesday, Feb 5, 10pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [2]
• Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [3]

Participants:

• Fuzheado
• user:Kevin Gorman
• user:Guerillero
• User:WereSpielChequers

Roundtable Topics

• Wiki-PR update
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-29/News_and_notes
• WikiVIP voices project
  • http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/03/271116576/wikipedia-archiving-voices-so-youll-always-know-how-celebs-sound
• Video/MP4 RfC goes down commons:Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video
• Andrew's American University Wikipedia class launches, edit-a-thon Feb 11 at the American Art Museum
  • Ideas for "challenges" to students? - video, WikiVIP voices
  • Mini class project - Satya Nadella article - http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Satya_Nadella
  • http://www.laweekly.com/los-angeles/wikipedia-becomes-a-battleground-for-art-activism/Content?oid=4416421
• Big topic: Systemic bias. Emily anchors this topic, in preparation for a module with Andrew's students in the American University class (postponed due to Emily bandwidth issues)
• Which news sources influence Wikipedia - http://towcenter.org/blog/which-news-organizations-influence-wikipedia/
• Cool mapping project - http://mapwikipedia.com
  • Former tallest buildings
• Culture of RfA - Werespielchequers and RFA tracking - User:WereSpielChequers/RFA_by_month
  • Kevin Gorman is an admin now
  • Easier today?
• Add more

News and notes

• Add more

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
• 00:01:01 – WikiPR update
• 00:15:15 – WikiVIP and multimedia in Wikipedia
• 00:21:36 – RfC on video support across Wikimedia projects
• 00:38:11 – Andrew's American University Wikipedia class
• 00:46:48 – Which news sources Wikipedia uses the most
• 00:53:04 – Plotting Wikipedia’s geodata on maps
• 00:54:51 – State of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
• 01:22:22 – popular articles of the last week