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*Is there any reason not to dual-license the content with the GFDL so the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Transcripts|transcripts]] can be placed on Wikipedia without the warning box and without the likelihood that someone's going to speedy delete them on copyright grounds? [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 11:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC) |
*Is there any reason not to dual-license the content with the GFDL so the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Transcripts|transcripts]] can be placed on Wikipedia without the warning box and without the likelihood that someone's going to speedy delete them on copyright grounds? [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 11:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC) |
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:*I have no idea what the deal with this is, but I'll draw Tawker and Fuzheado's attention to it. [[User:Daveydweeb|Daveydw]]<font color="green">[[User:Daveydweeb/Esperanza|ee]]</font>[[User:Daveydweeb|b]] (<span style="font-size: smaller;"><sup>[[User talk:Daveydweeb|'''chat''']]</sup>/<sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/RandyWang 2|'''patch''']]</sub></span>) 11:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC) |
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===Questions for the panel=== |
===Questions for the panel=== |
Revision as of 11:17, 15 November 2006
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Wikipedia_Weekly2.png)
Purpose: The purpose of Wikipedia Weekly is to produce a weekly netcast or podcast that provides an informative dose of audio information regarding Wikipedia and our fellow projects. Its unofficial off wiki homepage is www.wikipediaweekly.com (this is done due to RSS limitations in MediaWiki)
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
Episodes
How to get it
- RSS Feed (MP3) of episodes (external link - http://www.WikipediaWeekly.com) - iTunes importable
- iTunes subscribe
- Check out the direct download links provided at each episode's page, linked below.
List
- Episode 1
- Episode 2
- Episode 3
- Episode 4 (released!)
- Special Episode 1 (released!)
- Episode 5 (recording complete, post processing)
- Episode 6 (in planning)
Talk Page Notification
Please enter your user talk link on Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/delivery to receive information on new and upcoming episodes.
Participants
Participants can keep in contact via the #wikipediaweekly channel on FreeNode. Please note that we also like people who are not named Andrew.... :)
Userbox
![]() | This user is a Wikipedia Weekly host. |
{{User wikipedia weekly}} is our userbox
The List
Those who signup will be added to the "pool" that we hope to have for each week. We will try to vary things up for diversity in viewpoint, expertise and geography.
- --§hanel
- -- User:JWSchmidt - I have started using GarageBand
- -- Linuxbeak
- -- CableModem
- -- TehKewl1
- -- Daveydweeb
- I suppose... – Chacor
- -- Zero1328
- -- Shadow1 - Possibly, depends on my schedule. I've got some background in podcasting, if you guys need any technical help.
- --riana_dzasta - Great idea, guys! Thoroughly enjoyed Eps 1 and 2. I will attempt to help out after my exams are over.
- -- 1ne
- -- TBC
Creating the podcast
In general, the podcast is created by a live online audio conversation using Skype, recorded by User:Fuzheado in AAC format, and/or by Daveydweeb in AIFF format. Participants should try to use a good headset microphone, and a room without much echo (a rug, or a curtain helps), and hang around in #wikipediaweekly on Freenode for updates on upcoming episodes.
Audio handling
The podcast will be available in Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and AAC format. The files will be hosted either on commons or on bandwidth that Tawker supplies (within limits) and Ourmedia as soon as we can get it to work. All RSS is done on the external site and all project members can recieve access to control the RSS feed.
Video
- Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Screencasts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Video podcasting
Ideas for Content
Fuzheado proposed (in email)
- News
- Features
- Roundtable discussion
I guess kind of like TWIT but for Wiki.
Regular sources
- The Wikipedia Signpost
- Wikizine
- Wikipedia:Announcements
- Google News - Wikipedia
- Yahoo News - Wikipedia
Topics
Feel free to leave whatever you want to hear about.
- Update on Wikimania
- Dealing with Spam, Fleshlight
- What constitutes notability
- OTRS
- Vandal fighting
- Arbitration/Mediation
- Does Wikipedia scale
- Bots, how they work
- Maybe mention something about a future API? -cohesion 00:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Developer Q&A/update
- Wiki Screen Casts (howto / introduction)
- Why are pokemon FA's and on the front page? -- Tawker 03:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- WikiLegal w/ Brad Patrick (we haven't asked him yet) -- Tawker 03:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Why is RFA broken -- Tawker 03:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia in schools here -- Tawker 03:32, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- One Laptop Per Child and Wikipedia
- FYI, the president of OLPC, Walter Bender, is a Wikipedian who has edited at User talk:Walter.bender. Getting him or Nicholas Negroponte on the show would be fantastic. jaco♫plane 02:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- WikiPrint (aka Wikipedia 1.0)
- Something about other projects like Citizendium, perhaps? --Daveydweeb (chat/patch) 06:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- At the beginning, there was the English Wikipedia, and it was good. But following that, there were many Wikipedias, and many Wikimedia projects. And it was better. - overview and insider views of Wikimedia projects and insiders' views into other languages wikipedias. notafish }<';> 09:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Seth Ilys' Dot Project - Zero1328 Talk? 11:47, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- How to use cite.php
- Mailing list digests/whatever was kinda interesting? JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 00:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- How to deal with chronic vandalism on school articles (no talking about the notability of schools though). -→Buchanan-Hermit™/?! 06:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sidebar investigation? Is it actually changing, talk to Brion? JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 17:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- m:LSS just started to include wikipedia-l summaries now in addition to its foundation-l ones. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 05:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- Wishlist of software features e.g. WYSIWYG editing, search suggestion, integrated video/audio. Talk to Brion? Witty lama 01:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oooh, ooh! What he said! :D JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 08:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- An episode that explains plainly image copyright tags! please! JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 02:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Danny's Contest #3 has ended. [1] JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 23:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Suggestions from TBCΦ
- Various privacy issues regarding Wikipedia.
- Discussion on accusations of systemic bias in Wikipedia and on Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" concept.
- The purpose of Esperanza and how it was formed
- Should game pages be allowed on Wikipedia or are they unencyclopedic?
- I'm a member of WikiProject Computer and Video Games, so I really like the sound of this idea. It'd tie in well with User:Celestianpower's work with raising Bulbasaur to FA-status. Maybe we could have both in the same episode? --Daveydweeb (chat/patch) 10:12, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Disscussion on the quality of articles on Wikipedia.
- Claims of "anti-elitism" in the Wikipedian community.
- Commenting on various views (positive or negative) by scholars on the concept of Wikipedia.
- Describe Wikipedia's fair use policy.
- Should fair use images be allowed on portals or lists?
- Describe Wikipedia:Editor Review and Wikipedia:Peer Review as well as what could be done to make them more active.
- "Editcountitis" and its symptoms. (intended to be humorous)
- Wikipedia's guidelines on userpages and userboxes.
- Overview of Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
- History of Wikis, Wikipedia, Nupedia, Wikia, Bomis, and Wikimedia.
- A segment consisting of tips and hints for Wikipedian newbies.
- Pros and cons of anonymous editing on Wikipedia.
Existing audio content that could be included
- Wikipedia:Spoken articles
- Wikimania recordings (2006, 2005)
- A possible themeish song... the religion of wiki
- possible closing music
- a bunch of music we can use
Questions
- A few off the cuff questions from Connel MacKenzie - wikt 07:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- What will the board do to facilitate better interproject coordination from sister projects?
- When will WitkionaryZ be part of the WMF cluster? Will it be an official sister project too?
- What is the current development staff for WitkionaryZ?
- What are the latest projects they are focusing on?
- There was talk of automated language inflection relation mapping - any progress?
- Is there a development roadmap (e.g. when will all other language relations be mapped) for WitkionaryZ?
- What growth statistics do you have for WitkionaryZ?
- What is the board's view of license compatability of WitkionaryZ vs. WMF? (CC-by vs. GFDL)
- Are there plans to collect sister-project enhancements (e.g. preferences, Wiktionary's spell checker, etc.) into Wikipedia, Meta, Commons and the other sister projects?
Feedback
- You can leave comments at unofficial off wiki homepage is www.wikipediaweekly.com.
- Contact WikipediaWeekly by leaving messages for User:Fuzheado or User:Tawker
- The Internal news media page at meta-wiki has an entry for WikipediaWeekly
- Email contact wikipediaweekly at wikipediaweekly dot com
General Feedback
Archived comments can be found here.
- I think Wikimania needs better webcasting, in general, regardless of where it happens. I know folks in the northeastern US who couldn't make it to the one in Boston. I was there participating and I feel like I missed a lot of it, simply because there were five talks in the same hour and five hundred interesting contributors to meet. —Dvortygirl 17:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- this latest episode's sound quality (i'm listening to the 64k mp3) is kinda low - static and distortion pretty prominent, especially early in the show. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 17:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- It's source mic issues, we encoded it @ 128 and there's no difference.... most podcasts are @ 64.. 128 really kills the server when we get popular -- Tawker 18:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)`
- Are you uploading the OGGs to Commons? If not, why not? (They might have to be broken into parts, is all. I think there's still a 20mb upload limit.) nice work --pfctdayelise (translate?)
- Is there any reason not to dual-license the content with the GFDL so the transcripts can be placed on Wikipedia without the warning box and without the likelihood that someone's going to speedy delete them on copyright grounds? Angela. 11:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Questions for the panel
Spread WikipediaWeekly
This is our get listener campgain. The best podcast in the world is useless unless people download and listen to it. The role of this subproject is to get listeners by promoting the hell out of it.
We're listed on iTunes and I've submitted to directories but we need publicity... badly.
Fellow Projects
WikipediaWeekly is linked to the School of Media Studies at Wikiversity.
Wikimedia Foundation hosting
Plans for Wikimedia Foundation server and project support for podcasting.
- MediaWiki extension for podcasting
- The WikiPodcast MediaWiki extension was apparently only made for .mp3 files. Could it be easily modified for other file formats such as .m4a?
- The WikiPodcast MediaWiki extension was apparently only made to produce one RSS feed that would podcast every uploaded .mp3 file. Could this be modified to support multiple podcasts (for example, a podcast for each Wikimedia Foundation project that wants one?).
- Should there be a formal Wikimedia podcasting project proposal at meta?
- The Wikimania media files are also a mess. Can anyone explain the limited set of file types allowed at Commons and why even media files from Wikimania that are of accepted types are not hosted by Commons? Is the problem that nobody associated with the Wikimedia Foundation wants to deal with paying for the bandwidth costs or serving multimedia?
- Personally I don't see this as being something we do in the MediaWiki software itself. I think a limited set of users having access to the RSS feed is probally a good thing, we wouldn't want a vandal screwing up something that can easily get downloaded en masse and that is harder to revert than an edit on Wikipedia. The WikipediaWeekly RSS feed is open to established users here, there's a reason we protect the main page you know... it's a visiblity thing. What we really need is a flat out file serving box that can pump the files out good and fast, that's really the best bet. -- Tawker 23:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
"I think a limited set of users having access to the RSS feed is probally a good thing" <-- I agree. I was thinking of a dedicated podcasting wiki that would have restricted access just like the Foundation wiki. I thought maybe use of the WikiPodcast MediaWiki extension would result in minimal work for Wikimedia Foundation developers to set up a podcasting system. It might be just as easy for them to set up some kind of FTP access to a server. --JWSchmidt 04:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Signpost Audio
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Audio - three episodes were made in August 2006