Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode49

Episode 49: Use mine it’s bigger Released: May 15, 2008

WikipediaWeekly Episode 49.

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Participants

• Andrew Lih aka User:Fuzheado
• Tawker
• Danny Wool
• GerardM
• Chad Horohoe

Rundown

• The Foundation board reorganization and Wikicouncil passed on for now
  • Simple version - from blog [1]
  • Official version - longer [2]
  • Wikicouncil - Lodewijk and others chime in [3]
  • Starting a Projects council - Be bold, and do it :)
• Stable versions on German Wikipedia, already 7% of articles have it?
  • Graph of which ones have been sighted - http://toolserver.org/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi
  • Bugrequest/Idea for feature - stable version link - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14001
• Lawsuits thing (from the news)
  • WorldNetDaily and porn and FBI? Verifiable?
    • http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=63722
  • Scorpions cover. Encyclopedic or pornographic?
  • Lawsuit for Section 230
• Erik thing
  • Valleywag article and associated commentary
    • First article [4]
  • Valleywag article about "Greek" wrong, should retract
  • Coverage: Mashable [5], Cyde [6], Danny [7], Andrew [8], Wikip [9]
  • Foundation-L moderation
• de publishes wiki http://www.psfk.com/2008/05/wikipedia-to-be-published-controversy-ensues.html
  • Bertelsmann deal
• Lawsuit http://www.out-law.com/page-9095
  • The case against the Wikimedia Foundation was dismissed on 7/1/08.
• Jimmy Interview from last week

1. Erasing obvious vandalism from database
2. BLP - Brian Peppers and limiting article sizes
3. “Arbcom” equivalent for content

• GerardM - ISO and languages, Commons

Top 100

• Wikirage - Top 100 most edited

• Again at the end, call for new people