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Episode 49: Use mine it’s bigger


Released: May 15, 2008

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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 [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/04/26/wmf-board-of-trustees-announce-restructure-details/]
  • Official version - longer [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Restructure_Announcement]
  • Wikicouncil - Lodewijk and others chime in [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/041975.html]
  • 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 [http://valleywag.com/372140/erik-mller-no-2-at-wikipedia-a-defender-of-pedophilia]
  • Valleywag article about "Greek" wrong, should retract
  • Coverage: Mashable [http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/], Cyde [http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/08/erik-moller-wmf/], Danny [http://allswool.blogspot.com/], Andrew [http://www.andrewlih.com/blog/2008/05/08/valleywag-and-erik-moeller/], Wikip [http://wikip.blogspot.com/2008/05/aw-shit.html]
  • 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.http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/bauer-v-wikimedia
  • 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

  • [http://www.wikirage.com/top-edits/168/ Wikirage - Top 100 most edited]

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