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Episode 107: Executive Director search goes on - 12 December 2013
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- Downloads
This episode available at:
[1]
Planned time
- Google Hangouts, Thursday, Dec 12, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [2]
- Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [3]
Participants:
- Fuzheado
- User:Tawker
- Sage Ross
- Keilanawiki
- Kevin Gorman
- Ocaasi
- Guerillero
- add your name here
Roundtable Topics
- Arbcom election is over - Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2013/Candidates
- Executive director search - no selection, keeps going on - m:Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Update_9_December
- GLAM
- Kevin Gorman the new UC Berkeley Wikipedian in Residence
- Fuzheado's Wikipedia class in the Spring 2014
- Turning 12-week syllabus into something shorter - [4]
- Finnish Wikipedia study - [5]
- Traffic report in Signpost - concerns about editorial commentary
- Who's Bigger site - using Wikipedia and other SEO data to rank importance. Valid?
- http://whoisbigger.com/entity/Category:Women_scientists
- Commentary on Wikipedia's gender imbalance:
- "We believe they would be more pleased to hear our results concerning the relative significance of the men and women appearing in Wikipedia, which we write about in ``Who's Bigger. Over the past 300 years, the average women in Wikipedia is notably more significant than the average man. Our results reveal that women required greater accomplishments (analogous to 4 IQ points in the mean) to be recognized than men, up until very recent history."
- Should WMF accept Bitcoin (redux)
- Mailing list discussion brought up again - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-December/129121.html
- Wikimania 2015 Jury convened
- Is South Africa inevitable?
- News and notes
- Cool research into WP - /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Recent_research
- Top articles this week
- 00:00:00 – Introductions
- 00:01:19 – ArbCom elections
- 00:07:10 – Search for a new Executive Director
- 00:19:28 – Kevin Gorman WiR at University of California, Berkeley
- 00:35:45 – Study of the Finnish Wikipedia
- 00:39:31 – The Signpost traffic report and Bitcoin
- 00:54:15 – Wikimania 2014 and 2015
- 00:59:42 – WhoIsBigger.com
- 01:10:11 – recent research in The Signpost, multimedia, selfies, the Stub Contest, and the Commons photo challenge
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Episode 107: Executive Director search goes on - 12 December 2013
|
- Downloads
This episode available at:
[1]
Planned time
- Google Hangouts, Thursday, Dec 12, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [2]
- Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [3]
Participants:
- Fuzheado
- User:Tawker
- Sage Ross
- Keilanawiki
- Kevin Gorman
- Ocaasi
- Guerillero
- add your name here
Roundtable Topics
- Arbcom election is over - Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2013/Candidates
- Executive director search - no selection, keeps going on - m:Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Update_9_December
- GLAM
- Kevin Gorman the new UC Berkeley Wikipedian in Residence
- Fuzheado's Wikipedia class in the Spring 2014
- Turning 12-week syllabus into something shorter - [4]
- Finnish Wikipedia study - [5]
- Traffic report in Signpost - concerns about editorial commentary
- Who's Bigger site - using Wikipedia and other SEO data to rank importance. Valid?
- http://whoisbigger.com/entity/Category:Women_scientists
- Commentary on Wikipedia's gender imbalance:
- "We believe they would be more pleased to hear our results concerning the relative significance of the men and women appearing in Wikipedia, which we write about in ``Who's Bigger. Over the past 300 years, the average women in Wikipedia is notably more significant than the average man. Our results reveal that women required greater accomplishments (analogous to 4 IQ points in the mean) to be recognized than men, up until very recent history."
- Should WMF accept Bitcoin (redux)
- Mailing list discussion brought up again - http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-December/129121.html
- Wikimania 2015 Jury convened
- Is South Africa inevitable?
- News and notes
- Cool research into WP - /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-04/Recent_research
- Top articles this week
- 00:00:00 – Introductions
- 00:01:19 – ArbCom elections
- 00:07:10 – Search for a new Executive Director
- 00:19:28 – Kevin Gorman WiR at University of California, Berkeley
- 00:35:45 – Study of the Finnish Wikipedia
- 00:39:31 – The Signpost traffic report and Bitcoin
- 00:54:15 – Wikimania 2014 and 2015
- 00:59:42 – WhoIsBigger.com
- 01:10:11 – recent research in The Signpost, multimedia, selfies, the Stub Contest, and the Commons photo challenge