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NotTheWikipediaWeekly...
So... in what has to be an interesting twist, PrivateMusings, fresh off a 90 day ArbCom sanction, has started a podcast. In his first two shows he managed to have some veryinteresting guests. He's...
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Wikicouncil
Danny Wool's post about a Volunteer Council reminded me of the proposed Wikicouncil. I'm not sure whether these are the same thing or different ideas, but the idea of a Wikicouncil leaves me kind of...
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Planet Wikimedia
So I just put in a request to be added to Planet Wikimedia. This feed aggregation collects blogs from various wikimedians and is designed either for blogs that are primarily about Wikimedia Foundation...
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More on Anonymity
John Siegenthaler Sr. an earlyvictim of bad biographical data.Image from Wikimedia CommonsRecall that I've spoken about anonymity before ... I've also talked about biographies and notability,...
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Blog till you drop?
I've got to get me some of these pencils!Image by kaurjmeb via FlickrI know that people make money from blogging. (not me, unless you count the 34 cents in AdSense revenue (or whatever it is, I try not...
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Money can't buy happiness?
Sometimes following tangents finds you interesting things. Danny's "White Fathers" blog post yesterday on what really would help folk in Africa, whether the WMF's mission of knowledge sharing was the...
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House Flags
The trigger: MC&S adImage via Wikipedia(fair use to illustrate blog)In one of those chains of odd connections, it turns out I want to write an article about "house flags"... these are the flags...
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Governance Reform for Wikipedia?
WMF logo as a mosaic of imagesImage via Wikimedia CommonsPreviously, I wrote about a Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wide Wikicouncil. That idea continues to spark discussion (whether I think it's a good...
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governance uproar?
I did not steal any pencils.Image by kaurjmeb via FlickrIronically (or not) I'm writing this from the Wikimedia Foundation office... (although since I'm using Blogger's draft mode, I can queue it up...
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Fun with statistics
A form of advertising not likelyto be directly seen on WMF!Image via Wikimedia CommonsAdvertising as a funding source for Wikimedia Foundation projects is a fairly controversial topic, and there has...
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The Wikback, RIP?
Things are quieter atWikback these daysImage from FlickrOne of my earliest postings was about UninvitedCompany's Wikback which is a forum designed to be a place where folk with an interest in Wikipedia...
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Her first GA, can FA be far behind?
Ann Eliza Bleecker,Image via Wikimedia CommonsForgive me for being a bit proud!Background: While I tend to get involved in the meta aspects of Wikimedia Foundation projects (sometimes perhaps too much...
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Happy Birthday Amnesty International
Image via WikipediaFreedom comes in many flavors. While the Wikimedia Foundation projects are primarily concerned with free content and free access to knowledge, that freedom goes hand in hand with...
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New privacy policy?
Wikimedia projects (copyrightedlogos used under fair use)Image via FlickrThe board of the Wikimedia Foundation is going to vote fairly soon on a new privacy policy. A draft of it has been placed on...
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You got me...
Randall Munroeimage via Wikimedia CommonsSo, today's xkcd consists of a drawing of the Wood article in Wikipedia, but cut away to show only the lede, and the bottom, which is a large "in popular...
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Knol and Wikipedia
Wikipedia's Knol pageImage by dannysullivan via FlickrFair use claimed for commentaryBy now, everyone and their brother has blogged about Knol. If you don't know what it is, you've been under a rock,...
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Signal to Noise, part II
Robot Moderator?Image via Wikimedia CommonsA while back, in my post Attacking the noise, I described ROBOT9000, automated moderating technology introduced at one of xkcd's IRC channels as an...
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Now I can retire...
My image of Taliesin West(from Wikimedia Commons)Previously, I have written about how Encyclopedia Britannica introduced a free access scheme for bloggers. Nifty. But this flows both ways. EB is also...
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