Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode68

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Episode 68: Wikipedia's Nicotine High

Released: January 3 2008

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Participants:

Fuzheado, Witty Lama, Tawker and ^demon

Topics

Usability project, funded by frank stanton [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers]
WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM (Chad blogged on this: [http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2008/12/on-wikitext-and-wysiwygs/ On Wikitext and WYSIWYGS]
General UI clutter/cleanup/issues?
German federal archive releases a ton of images [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv]

::[http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F06%2F1654246&from=rss Slashdot covers it too]

Australian Bureau of Statistics goes CC-by [http://abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/Website+Changes+Coming+Soon#Creative%20Commons]
[http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Six-UK-ISPs-Block-Access-To-Wikipedia-99540 The UK tries to emulate Australia for technical stupidity] "for the children" of course. -- Tawker (talk) 23:13, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
We've already discussed this before on episode 49
Foundation Press Release [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008] Plus Q&A [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008QA]
Interesting stats that prove the streisand effect? [http://stats.grok.se/en/200812/Virgin_Killer] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_articles]
Good blogposts on the topic [http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/12/stung-by-scorpion.html Danny Wool], [http://durova.blogspot.com/2008/12/bad-taste-v-hypocrisy.html durova], [http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/176/streisand-effect Brianna Laugher], [http://blog.nocleanfeed.com/2008/12/blacklisting-of-wikiepedia-in-britain.html nocleanfeed.com]
News reports: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/09/wikipedia-censorship Guardian uk], [http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Wikipedia-Weighs-Information-Against-Indecency-49659.htm noting that the CIA has already cleared the image before].
IT'S OVER [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/12/08/wikimedia-statement-regarding-censorship-in-the-uk/]
Australian plans for censorship are struggling, partially on basis of this week's expereinces [http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/labor-plan-to-censor-internet-in-shreds/2008/12/09/1228584820006.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1]
Number of editors appears to have stalled :-( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_frequency]
and "WikiTruth sticks the boot in [http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=For_Whom_the_Bell_Curve_Tolls]
Wikiposters, the new way of getting Commons content - [http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/178/innovation-and-commerce-on-the-french-wikipedia-wikiposters from Brianna's Blog].
Foundation produces video tutorials for editing [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/12/18/wikimedia-to-produce-online-video-tutorials/]
Florence Devouard, user:anthere, has been awarded a knight of the National Order of Merit by the French Govt. [http://blog.anthere.org/index.php/2008/12/19/150-meritante] [fr.]

Podcaster's Picks:

[http://wikihorror.wordpress.com/ Wikihorror] - a blog about WP's 'best' vandalism diffs.

2009 Predictions

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