Agenda
This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.
Time of Recording
Proposed: 1500 UTC, Saturday, December 2, 2006
To accommodate two European participants
Introduce the panel
That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.
See the script
News
- ArsTechnica reports that experts find Wikipedia to be more accurate than non-experts do. This will probably be in the next Signpost. (???)
- -- "Article-free Sunday" -- on the German Wikipedia, aimed at improving existing content rather than producing new articles. Links in rather nicely with our 1.5M discussion last episode... (PRESROI)
- Esperanza's MfD. Esperanza was nominated for deletion by User:Robth, citing -- among other things -- the concern that it gives new users the "idea that Wikipedia place for socializing rather than working on an encyclopedia". It was closed early by User:Kim Bruning after the MfD was edited more than 600 times in just two days. (DAVEYDWEEB)
- What is Esperanza? When was it set up, and what are its activities? How large is its membership?
- What kind of culture exists within Esperanza?
- What were the major issues that caused Esperanza to be nominated for deletion, and how did they come about?
- By the time the MfD ended, various users had expressed agreement that EA needed a major overhaul, and the organisation is now discussing such an overhaul. What has come out of that?
- What is the status of Esperanza's subprojects, like admin coaching and the Barnstar Brigade?
- What changes are being considered to Esperanza's governance?
- Robth, what changes do you think need to be made to Esperanza? Is the organisation recoverable, in your opinion?
From the Signpost
- Steward elections begin on meta. Should include an explanation of the role of stewards, their history, etc. (MESSEDROCKER)
- How many candidates? 15..
- Any issues so far?
- Software updates: "Whitelisting" now available to produce autoblock-exempt IPs; auto-edit summaries; new feature to revert edits other than the last one; (FUZHEADO)
- First type of Whitelist in Wikipedia?
- Spam whitelist?
Feedback
If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say.
- Steel359 - Comment on Fuzheado
The World According to Wikipedia
This would be a quick, light-hearted discussion of any particularly funny page-rankings we see on The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia. There's at least two or three minutes' worth of humour in that.
If lacking material, we could look at another Top 100 page, such as The Top 100 Vandalised pages on Wikipedia.
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Episode 8: Esperanza |
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