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Episode 68: Wikipedia's Nicotine High Released: January 3 2008

WikipediaWeekly Episode 68.

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Participants: Fuzheado, Witty Lama, Tawker and ^demon

Topics

• Usability project, funded by frank stanton
  • WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM (Chad blogged on this: On Wikitext and WYSIWYGS
  • General UI clutter/cleanup/issues?
• German federal archive releases a ton of images

Slashdot covers it too

• Australian Bureau of Statistics goes CC-by
• The UK tries to emulate Australia for technical stupidity "for the children" of course. -- Tawker (talk) 23:13, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
  • We've already discussed this before on episode 49
  • Foundation Press Release Plus Q&A
  • Interesting stats that prove the streisand effect? and
  • Good blogposts on the topic Danny Wool, durova, Brianna Laugher, nocleanfeed.com
  • News reports: Guardian uk, noting that the CIA has already cleared the image before.
  • IT'S OVER
  • Australian plans for censorship are struggling, partially on basis of this week's expereinces
• Number of editors appears to have stalled :-(
  • and "WikiTruth sticks the boot in
• Wikiposters, the new way of getting Commons content - from Brianna's Blog.
• Foundation produces video tutorials for editing
• Florence Devouard, user:anthere, has been awarded a knight of the National Order of Merit by the French Govt. [fr.]

Podcaster's Picks:

• Wikihorror - a blog about WP's 'best' vandalism diffs.

2009 Predictions