Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode103
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| Episode 103: The Case of WikiPR - 8 October 2013
[http://archive.org/download/wikipedia-weekly-103/ww103.mp3 Listen on archive.org] • [https://archive.org/details/wikipedia-weekly-103 Metadata page on archive.org] |
;Downloads
This episode available at: [//www.youtube.com/watch?v=trznE6o5HOY YouTube]
Planned time
- Google Hangouts, Tuesday, Oct 8, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/]
- Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/]
Participants:
- Fuzheado
- Emily
- Bill
- Kevin Gorman
- David King
- Occasi
= Roundtable Topics =
- Paid editing scandal with WikiPR: The big news is that the DailyDot exposed a massive set of sockpuppets/meatpuppets editing articles on Wikipedia, on behalf of the firm WikiPR.
- http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-sockpuppet-investigation-largest-network-history-wiki-pr/
- Investigation archive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Morning277/Archive
- list of companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Morning277
- Does this violate any terms of use: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities
- Are FTC guidelines relevant? David King - http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/03/130312dotcomdisclosures.pdf
; News and notes
- Wikipedia Loves Libraries events
; Top articles this week
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TOP25
2 Breaking Bad 1,479,907
4 United States federal government shutdown of 2013 730,644
5 Tom Clancy 675,054
6 Government shutdown 646,282
7 List of Breaking Bad episodes 618,240
8 Breaking Bad (season 5) 571,349
9 Government shutdown in the United States 556,134
10 Facebook 515,310
11 Lorde 502,186
12 Lycos 484,207
13 G-force 458,206
14 Gravity (film) 426,904
15 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 410,581
16 Attack on Titan 389,751
17 Undefined 381,093
18 List of Bollywood films of 2013 371,291
19 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 364,902
20 World War II 361,550
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