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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
Released: 5 May 2007

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: