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Wikipedia Weekly
Wikipedia Weekly is the panel-discussion podcast that covers the week's news, events and controversies on Wikipedia and the wiki-industry. It includes regular interviews with prominent wikipedians to highlight some of the interesting projects, personalities and variations within wikipedia and between languages.
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Episode 19: Vandalism and Stabbing Polonius
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Among other things, in this week's episode:
- The updates to the mission and vision vision statement of the foundation and notices that WikiVersity isn't covered,
- A cool new app CatGraph on the toolserver. It makes a graphical presentation of the entire categorization tree,
- The vandalism study that was first described in Signpost ep. 23/04/07,
- A comparison of the Citizendium (childish) and Wikipedia (dry) articles for "Dog" in the light of this blog post and the Grapefruit essay,
- Danny Hillis' Freebase.com and how it relates to the Bacon number,
- Stabbing Polonius, a blog post by Nicholas Carr, expresses his, equally sceptical, opinion on Citizendium, Larry Sanger and Wikipedia. Including the provocative:
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- Some of the pannelist's favourite nooks and crannys of Wikipedia including the page history for [[perfect]],
- And to close, a rendition of the The RfA Candidate's Song!!