Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode45

Episode 45: BLP revisited
Released: April 18, 2008

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Participants:

Wikipedia unblocked in China
100 x 5,000
- After Wikipedia reached 10,000,000 global articles on March 27 (see archived story), the Kapampangan Wikipedia became the 100th Wikipedia to reach 5,000 articles on April 2.
- Showing the growth of smaller-language Wikipedias, the 100th Wikipedia to reach 100 articles was the Nahuatl Wikipedia in June 2005 (see archived story); June 2006 saw the 100th to reach 1,000 articles, the Venetian Wikipedia (see archived story). In April 2006, about 73.4% of existing articles were located on the Top 10 Wikipedias; since then, only 59.4% of the new articles created over the last two years were on Top 10 Wikipedias.
Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board
- effeietsanders
Multilingual stats recap
- Hello, I would like to hear in WW more about the Wikipedia language versions, what happens in e.g. the Japanese or the Finnish Wikipedia. en:User:Ziko-en
- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics
- how does Volapuk, a conlang, have 115,000 articles, 112,000 added just this year?
Wikimedia blog
Wikimedia Foundation board meeting
WP:BOO – Wikipedia:Biographical optout

Feedback from the WW.org site
- Stable versions
  - Your idea that reviewer status should be given to all editors defeats the entire purpose of the reviewing system. How would a completely open reviewing system insure that certain Wikipedia content is actually reliable? Articles marked as reviewed would have no more editorial safeguards than the articles we have now. You would just have to trust whoever was the last person to have reviewed the article (which could easily be a vandal). It would basically just give vandals a new way of committing vandalism. Stop worshipping the “anyone can edit” mantra and think seriously about how we can use these tools to make Wikipedia a reliable resource. Comment by kaldari — April 3, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
  - Also, “Dutch” and “Danish” do not refer to the same country. Dutch is the Netherlands. Danish is Denmark. Fitna and Jyllands-Posten are not from the same country.

Comment by kaldari — April 3, 2008 @ 5:51 pm

Yes we're idiots

- Wikinews
- Australia as 2010
- Hi, if you need such a great amount of CPU power to do the statistics for the wikipedia, why don´t you split the CPU Power an a lot aff computers, like the SETI project. Distributet computing is the name for it. That would be a cheap way to get anough CPU power, Comment by Jan — April 8, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
  - Is this an easily partitionable problem?

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Preceded by Episode 44 Stable Perversions	Episode 45	Succeeded by Episode 46 Moderation or Censorship