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• Andrew Lih
• Tawker
• Liam
• The Placebo Effect

This is Wikipedia Weekly... episode 43 for the week of March 10, 2008.

News

• Call for new voices on the podcast
• NotTheWikipediaWeekly
• To our listeners Wikipedia Weekly is an independent, community audiocast, and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation. The contents of this page are that of their authors alone.
• Wikipedia Review tests our independence
  • Liam replies to criticism of the show with Angela Beesley
• Latest with Jimmy, Valleywag, Danny, board, but discussed in a professional/balanced way, and not a scandalsheet
  • Valleywag publishes chat from Marsden and Wales
  • Wales comes out with on-wiki User page statement
  • Marsden puts attire on eBay for sale
  • More Valleywag stories related to leaked chat
  • Bloggers (namely Danny) blog about WMF finances and Jimmy's expenditures
  • Sue Gardner responds on blog of Danny's blog (allswool.blogspot.com)
  • Canadian Press picks up on this story, Australian shortly after
  • Associated Press picks up
  • CNET Live appearance by Sue Gardner
• Debate from last week about 20 million articles. Lots of juicy discussion on that, and most ppl siding with Liam and not me. :) But the numbers don't lie. Let's talk about stats we have now, and hopefully stats to come from Erik Zachte now that we finally have Feb 2008 dumps (yeah!)
  • WW.com feedback
  • WW42 page
  • Raul654 on Fuzheado page
  • Ben Yates summarizes/transcribes
  • Images mentioned: Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth#Is the growth in article count of Wikipedia logistic?
  • See also Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia
• Wiki industry -- Wikileaks, forgot to talk about that. Kaltura, which came out when we were on hiatus, and as brought up by Brianna's good blog post about this.
• Alexandria update
  • The board has asked me to review the Wikimania security issues. I've asked Mike to commission a routine conference site assessment from a professional firm, with a special focus on issues facing LGBT participants, and within the context of us being an organization that's highly-visible and not uncontroversial (e.g., Muhammad pictures, etc.). We'll ask for an overall threat assessment, as well as a set of recommendations on how to best reduce risk. I'll report progress to the board in April. - Sue Gardner
• Rfb and 90%

Top 100

• Wikirage - Top 100 most edited
• WikiCharts - Top 100 read

• Again at the end, call for new people