Witty Lama talks with Angela Beesley. Topics include: What’s it like to have an article about yourself; Wikimania ‘08 is getting started and ‘09 in the bidding stage; the Foundation’s advisory board, who they are and what they do; and clearing up some misconceptions about Wikia including no-follow, Kaltura and Search.

Witty Lama interviews Tim Vickers, the director of the Molecular and Cellular Biology project. Including discussions science on WP, outreach programmes to the scientific community, ProteinBoxBot’s articles, how the Human Genome sequencing project reaches WP, the American Chemical Soceity’s wiki, and thoughts on RfA.

The News Roundtable, with panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), James Hare (Messedrocker), Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect) Rundown 1:30 Carolyn Doran, COO 14:51 Google Knol, should Wikipedia be afraid? 23:38 World of Deletion - Angela Beesley 26:35 Articles for Deletion with Placebo 34:15 Widgets in MediaWiki 36:00 Jimbo comment on citing Wikipedia 39:53 New users cannot move pages 40:39 Steward elections, [...]

Special episode: An interview with Brianna Laugher (User:Pfctdayelise) on the recent gift of US $20,000 for the Phil Greenspun Illustration Project, and her administration of the project to “pay” volunteers to create free illustrations. Also, the recent news of GFDL and Creative Commons license compatibility, what are the details and what does it mean for Wikimedia [...]

Panelists: Andrew Lih (Fuzheado), Andrew Phillips (Tawker), Liam Wyatt (WittyLama), James Hare (Messedrocker), Nico Montes (The Placebo Effect) Rundown 1:00 Sue Gardner hiring and staff 5:30 Fundraising 8:16 Durova Arbcom 17:40 Arbcom elections 20:52 German lawsuit 25:32 German study on Wikipedia 26:24 Pet Peeve about news pages and Wikipedia 35:01 Policy pages 36:31 Should students use Wikipedia 46:28 Top 100

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