Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode104

Episode 104: Wiki-PR Reaction - 22 October 2013 Released: TBD * Listen on archive.org • Metadata page on archive.org

Downloads

This episode available at: YouTube

Planned time

• Google Hangouts, Tuesday, Oct 22, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group [1]
• Facebook planning and discussion page for Wikipedia Weekly [2]

Participants:

• Fuzheado
• Keilanawiki
• TheWikipedian
• Kevin Gorman
• add your name here

Roundtable Topics

• Followup on Wiki-PR editing situation
  • http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-sockpuppet-investigation-largest-network-history-wiki-pr/
  • Proposal to ban WikiExperts.us and Alex Konanykhin - https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Community_ban_proposal_for_paid_editing_firm_wikiexperts.us
  • SlimVirgin and Bright Line proposal - https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:No_paid_advocacy
  • VICE piece
  • BBC, Techmeme and others followup
  • Statement by Sue Gardner
  • Time magazine piece [3]
  • Proposal to officially cban wiki-pr: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:An#Proposed_formalised_community_ban_for_Wiki-PR
• Chelsea Manning arbcom case closed
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-16/Arbitration_report
  • Phil Sandifer reaction: not happy - personal blog post "Wikipedia Goes All-In on Transphobia" (October 22, 2013)
  • David Gerard banned from editing anything about trans*
• Decline of Wikipedia
  • http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/

News and notes

• TK

Top articles this week

• https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages
• https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:TOP25