Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode71

Episode 71: February 20 2009
Released: TBA

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Shameless plug: Book launch March 19, 2009, in NYC
Flagged Revs asked for by Jimmy (who is "Character Approved" . The precursor , the press reaction and the Devs. reaction. All summarised at Fuzheado's blog: Brion:
Libraries and copyfraud post by Sage Ross
- Related copyFAILs
Britannica and 20 minutes turnaround?
File formats for upload - Brianna talking about slides and presentations, Durova talking about restoration of images
Ogg Announcement, $100,000 grant. $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software... Ogg Theora encoder enhancements, improvements to network seeking, and client and server libraries which will end up in Firefox and MediaWiki. These enhancements to MediaWiki should be available some time around May this year and will allow organizations to run their own collaborative video server. Mozilla Blog:
Abuse filter now works description:
Commons Picture of the Year is coming again soon
Orphan artcles: Signpost

Fuzheado | Talk - http://www.wikicu.com - Columbia University wiki, my alma mater; other unis do same thing; demographic overlap with Wikipedians; rare example of small-medium size wikis that work; maybe wikis are for certain age group?
Ragesoss - Archives or Assets?, plenary speech from 2003 by the president of the Society of American Archivists.
Durova - File:John_Paul_Jones2.png failed .png formatting
Durova - Wounded Knee Massacre image discovery during restoration. Or here for a quick before and after.
Witty lama: The art of Wikigroaning

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