Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode99
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Episode 99: Bradley-Chelsea-Bradley Manning: 31 August 2013
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- Downloads
This episode available at: Youtube [1]
Planned time
- Google Hangouts, Saturday, Aug 31, 130pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Jake Ocaasi
Participants:
Roundtable Topics[edit]
- Chelsea Manning moved back to Bradley Manning after a vote(!) - Talk:Chelsea_Manning/August_2013_move_request#Closure
- Slate said at the time: "Wikipedia Beats Major News Organizations, Perfectly Reflects Chelsea Manning’s New Gender" (doh) - [2]
- Truthdig praise: "How Wikipedia Edited Pvt. Manning’s Gender Without Spectacle" (doh again) - [3]
- We're also getting meta: Chelsea_Manning_gender_identity_media_coverage
- Jeff Tuel, unknown quarterback for Buffalo Bills and his newly created article - http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/jeff-tuel-buffalo-bills-wikipedia/
- Black_Twitter - is this original research, or has the term become widely used enough?
- News and notes
- SSL switch-over & Erik Möller's piece about "Wikimedia and the politics of encryption" - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-August/127830.html
- New enwiki Checkusers and Oversighters [4]
- Wiki Loves Monuments starts tomorrow (1 September) - +Antarctica, China, United Kingdom (first timers)
- Top articles this week
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Traffic_report
- Observations - Bollywood influence
- Since we last did this commentary on WW about 3 years, what's changed? Decline of blogging, rise of Reddit/Twitter/Google doodle? Where did Naruto go?
- Podcasters' picks
- Fuzheado - Interesting Wikisym 2013 writeup, about 100 ppl showed up in Cyberport HK, ahead of Wikimania - Signpost - Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Recent_research
- James F. - first real improvements as part of the new Multimedia team in Wikimedia Engineering coming out: the new galleries, and the lightboxes for videos. More to come! mw:Multimedia and mw:Multimedia/2013-14_Goals - See WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-08-28/Technology_report for demonstrations.
- Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) - Wikipedia Library portal redesign WP:The_Wikipedia_Library, go create a profile. Question, what role should Wikipedia play in the broader open access movement?
- Emily - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352877/description/Probing_Wikipedia_editors_hive_mind_for_rules_on_cooperative_behavior