Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-07-23/News and notes
News and notes
"The Wikipedia Story"
BBC presenter Clive Anderson will host a half-hour show about Wikipedia, entitled "The Wikipedia Story". The show, scheduled to air on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:30 a.m. British Summer Time (10:30 a.m. UTC) on BBC Radio 4, is described as "[asking] whether Wikipedia is a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity." It includes interviews from Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, former Britannica editor-in-chief Robert McHenry, Web 2.0 critic Andrew Keen, and singer Mike Scott, who was involved in an edit war on his own article [1]. The show will be available on BBC Radio 4's website (RealAudio link) or available as a podcast (Radio 4 Choice podcast) for about a week after its original airing.
Visa ruling incorrectly mentions Wikipedia
A Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia ruling that overturned the denial of a visa to an Armenian citizen repeatedly mentions Wikipedia, in an apparent misunderstanding:
21. It should be noted that the reference to the web site www.armeniapedia.org (the web site) is taken to be a reference to what I understand the parties to accept is a linked web site to the web site known as "Wikipedia".
The court appeared to have assumed that Armeniapedia.org was the same as, or related to, Wikipedia; some of the court's individual findings are questions about the reliability of Wikipedia, not Armeniapedia.
Briefly
- The Volapük Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles.
- The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
- The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
- The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
- The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
- The French Wikiversity has reached 2,000 pages.
- The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
- The English Wikipedia has reached 150,000,000 edits and 750,000 local media files.
- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached an average of three edits per page.
- The French Wikisource has reached 2,000 registered users.
- The Afrikaans Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.
Discuss this story
I wonder if that Australian Federal Court stuff-up would be enough grounds for one party to go to appeal? - Ta bu shi da yu 08:06, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
RealAudio link
I had some issues opening the .ram file with VLC media player, however if you select file/open network stream and use the following it plays fine: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/1130_tue.ra JACOPLANE • 2007-07-24 17:26