Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode3

Episode 3: Wikimedia Foundation Retreat
Released: 28 October, 2006

WikipediaWeekly episode 3.
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It's an irony, because we're all so unbelievably verbal and we write so much that we can't communicate with each other... So it becomes a challenge to find a way that we can streamline communication.

In fact I'm very excited about this podcast as one of those tools. If this podcast is entertaining and lots of people in the entire community, internationallly and in many different projects listen to this, it gives us a central place to communicate news in an entertaining way. I think that's kind of cool."

— Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Weekly episode 3

The Panel

Main hosts
Guest hosts
Guests

Overview

Jimmy Wales Interview

  1. Wikimedia Board Elections
    The Board voted unanimously to elect Florence Nibart-Devouard as the Chair of the Board, Tim Shell as Vice-Chair, Erik Möller as Executive Secretary, and Michael Davis as Treasurer. Jimmy Wales assumes the title of Chairman Emeritus of the Foundation.
  2. Communication
    Jimmy talks on the matter of communication between users, and the difficulty of involving new Wikipedias in the community

News

  1. Wikipedia's possible economic value
    Using values such as Wikipedia's traffic and current advertising rates, HipMojo calculates a possible market value of $580 million from advertising.
  2. "Why Wiki?", the Flash introduction to Wikipedia
    Librarian and Wikipedian John Hubbard creates a four part online video course to Wikipedia, made in Flash.
  3. Students turning to Wikipedia
    Silver Chips Online, the student newspaper of Montgomery Blair High School, reports on growing student use of Wikipedia, and teachers’ acceptance of the website.
  4. Wikimania 2007 official Wiki online
    The official Wiki for Wikimania 2007, to be held in Taipei, is now online.