Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode65

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Episode 65: Censorship while you sleep

Released: November 20, 2008

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Participants:

Fuzheado, Witty Lama and Tawker (after a fashion...).

Topics

"When does Wikipedia call the election"
Wikipedia as a mainstream election news source
Site had problems Nov 4th
Statistics on Obama and McCain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-11-10/Dispatches#Election%20day%20statistics]
Noam Cohen talks about it. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/technology/internet/10link.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]
Two featured articles at same time, stats, quick updates for US election. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Tools/Single#Dispatches:_Historic_election_proves_groundbreaking_on_the_Main_Page]
UNU survey criticized for length and format (mailing lists)
No Clean Feed interview re. Australian internet censorship [http://nocleanfeed.com/ No Clean Feed.com]
GNU FDL 1.3 released - allowing merging to cc-by-sa. [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/046996.html]. Lessig blogs about it [http://lessig.org/blog/2008/11/enormously_important_news_from.html]
Size of the fundraising banner / state of the fundraiser
audio PSA's for the fundraiser [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/Audio_content]
lots of work redesigning the fundraiser tech [http://leuksman.com/log/2008/11/05/how-i-spent-my-election-night/]
Moldovan complaint [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047264.html]
Search Engine improved [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Tools/Single#MediaWiki_search_engine_improved]
Abuse Filter extension [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Abuse_filter]

Podcaster's Picks:
List of land borders by date of establishment
Ninety-Ninety Rule

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