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Episode 62: Chrome-Plated Roundtable

Released: 14 September 2008

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Rundown

user:Young Trigg edits Sarah Palin's article - a lot - before the announcement of VP status. [http://infodisiac.com/blog/2008/09/sarah-palin/ Statistics analysis]. Same with Biden.

Amazon.com launches [http://www.soundunwound.com/ SoundUnwound]. News item from [http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/amazon-takes-on.html Wired].

If we can't have WYSIWYG then [http://www.enotes.com/blogs/wikipedia/2008-09/wikipedia-needs-syntax-highlighting/ MediaWiki needs syntax highlighting] - from the Wikipedia blog.

Google releases Chrome. [http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/search/label/Chrome GerardM experiences]

[http://leuksman.com/log/2008/08/25/queryphp-is-dead-long-live-apiphp/ write API] is now live! (Fuzheado, Tawker) Explain what an API is.

"[http://brianna.modernthings.org/article/137/community-curated-works-ccw Community-Curated Works]" (as opposed to "user-generated content") to define what we do.

[http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/04/just-how-powerful-is-wikipedia Just how powerful is Wikipedia] (a bunch of google rankings. interesting to compare them w/ knol)

Frieda resigns from the board

Should Wikiquote be disbanded?

New position at the foundation office - [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Chief_Program_Officer Chief Program Officer].

German Wikipedia now displaying flagged revisions to anonymous.

currently Flagged Revisions is running on de-WP, ru-WP and

en-wikinews. While ru-WP and en-wikinews had a strawpoll before this

was turned on, de first had the test and then we had a straw poll in

August to decide about how to proceed. There were three options and

any user could vote for any of those options but only once for any

option. The options were: 1) Disable Flagged Revs. 2) Keep Flagged

Revs and IPs see the current version and 3) Keep Flagged Revs and IPs

see the latest flagged revision. The results are (see

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Weiterf%C3%BChrung_der_gesichteten_Versionen):

1) 362 Users

2) 197 Users

3) 708 Users.

So, since last week, IPs see by default the latest flagged revision.

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