Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode34

• The Fundraiser has started.
  • Gmaxwell on the foundation-l mailing list:

"My agreement is tempered only by curiousity about what Wikimedia will do now that there is a nearly 5 million dollar budget for next year when the public will not donate more than 2 million during this fundraiser. Would selling Davis' seat on the board to the highest bidder be more wise than ads?"

• • If Apple is now putting Wikipedia as an option for their dictionary tool in the new operating system (proof) has anyone from the foundation turned to them for a token of gratitude - i.e. money or hardware?
  • Is there donation matching by corporations this time? There's been no mention of it.
• Signature signed for someone else - wikifraud? see diff: .
• Newbie biting -
• Comic book deletions / people telling people not to donate
• Chronicle of Higher ed. says the marking is tougher here than at unis: .
• Annonymous article creation will be reenabled due to inconclusive results from last test
• self nominations have opened for the december Arbitration committee elections
  • ZScout De-sysopping Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/My desysop of Zscout370
  • Previously interviewed on the show (ep.15) User:Rama's Arrow has been de-sysoped and left the project following an arbitration case which he initiated: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Hkelkar 2.

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