Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode65

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Participants:

• "When does Wikipedia call the election"
• Wikipedia as a mainstream election news source
  • Site had problems Nov 4th
  • Statistics on Obama and McCain [1]
  • Noam Cohen talks about it. [2]
  • Two featured articles at same time, stats, quick updates for US election. [3]
• UNU survey criticized for length and format (mailing lists)
• No Clean Feed interview re. Australian internet censorship No Clean Feed.com
• GNU FDL 1.3 released - allowing merging to cc-by-sa. [4]. Lessig blogs about it [5]
• Size of the fundraising banner / state of the fundraiser
• audio PSA's for the fundraiser [6]
• lots of work redesigning the fundraiser tech [7]
• Moldovan complaint [8]
• Search Engine improved [9]
• Abuse Filter extension [10]

• Podcaster's Picks:
  • List of land borders by date of establishment
  • Ninety-Ninety Rule