Wikivoices is a grassroots and project aiming to help connect and inform all contributors to Wikimedia Foundation projects through 'real world' conversations / podcasts. We were originally known as Not The Wikipedia Weekly - which is still true. We're not them. We host occasional Skype conference calls which are open to all, and we discuss various wiki issues of the moment. We want you to be involved! Anyone can host a conversation, and post the recording here, or just join a scheduled chat and listen / contribute as you see fit :-) | | | | How to take part in Wikivoices | | General notes | How to join a WV discussion |  Meet Samantha, executive producer and spokesmodel for Wikivoices. She heads our board of directors - Passive participation
You're welcome to listen to our latest recording or browse through our episode archives. - Active participation
To participate, you'll need to install the latest version of Skype onto your computer, have a Skype ID you don't mind sharing with the world, and of course you'll need a microphone and speakers, or headset. It's not very difficult to host a Skype conference call on your own, and you're welcome to propose a dedicated episode with participants and topics of your choosing, which would also Wikivoices. Consensus at this page will determine whether or not they remain officially Wikivoices however! Please do get involved! | - Probably the easiest way to be part of a recording is to join the Wikivoices Skype public chat before the recorded conversation starts, which can be reached by clicking on the link: Click to join the NTWW Skype public chat.
- People in the WV Skype public chat will help you join the Skype conference call.
- A word of caution
Please note that Skype is not a safe environment, and it is outside WMF. If you're at all in doubt, don't use it. Some suggestions to protect yourself from hacking and outing are described here. See also NTWW Skype chat — guidelines and usage hints | | License | | The official chats are dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. If you are unwilling to license your voice contributions under these licenses, do not participate in an official chat. | [edit] Our next Skypecast [edit] Episode 51 - Episode 51: Wikinews on the night before the night before Christmas, Writing an article on Wikinews and getting it listed in Google News.
- Time (provisional): Wednesday December 23, 2009 (1200, PST, 1500 EST, 2000 UTC)
- Participants: Durova (WikiVoices Hostess), Brian McNeil (English Wikinews), Mike Peel (Wikimedia UK), Jimbo Wales (Wikipedia Founder), Dendodge (English Wikinews and Wikipedia), The Thing That Should Not Be {English Wikipedia), IShadowed (English Wikipedia), Paul Williams (Skenmy) (English Wikinews & Wikimedia UK), Juliancolton (English Wikinews and Wikipedia), Coffee (English Wikipedia), WereSpielChequers (English Wikipedia)
- Note to possible participants: There are technical limitations with using skype. There will be an approximate limit of 12 people participating but could be less on the day depending on how the conference call holds up. If you wish to participate list your name AND be there early on the day. It will be first come, first serve based on both of those requirements in addition to a standard level of clue. If you dont have a microphone it is unlikely that you will be able lurk in the conference.
[edit] Latest episodes [edit] Our latest recorded Skypecast | Episode 50 We discuss minors on Wikipedia, BLP, and new users | - Date and time
13 December 2009 Length: 53m 60s (Part 1), 57m 12s (Part 2) Topics discussed in this episode - Part 1: Minors and Wikipedia
- Part 2: BLP and new users on Wikipedia
Participants [edit] Episode 52 (ArbCom candidate interviews, 2009) WikiVoicesArb09 A conversation with Unomi
WikiVoicesArb09 A conversation with Jehochman
WikiVoicesArb09 A conversation with Cla68
- Jhochman – Privatemusings (talk) 05:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Unomi – *Dan T.* (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- Steve Smith – *Dan T.* (talk) 02:41, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Fred Bauder – *Dan T.* (talk) 19:29, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Cla68 – *Dan T.* (talk) 13:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Episode archives - Do note that a nearly complete podcast set is currently available via iTunes for download.
[edit] Episodes by topic and participants | Episode | Date | Topic | Participants | | Old name: Not The Wikipedia Weekly | | 01 | Mar 04, 2008 | What is NTWW?, Wikimania 2008, WMF News, FA Director | Messedrocker, Privatemusings, Bstone, Raul654 | | 02 | Mar 07, 2008 | Interview with Danny Wool, former WMF grants coordinator | Privatemusings, Durova, Zginder, Danny | | 03 | Mar 18, 2008 | Interview with Sue Gardner, WMF Executive Director | Privatemusings, Durova, Raul654, Majorly, Zginder, Sue Gardner | | 04 | Mar 26, 2008 | Arbcom security, SUL. A.P. Sloan donation, Pseudoscience and fringe theories | Privatemusings, Durova, Raul654, Filll | | 05 | Mar 31, 2008 | Interview with Jay Walsh, head of WMF Communications, WikiProjects, SUL | Privatemusings, Durova, Raul654, Filll, JayWalsh | | 06 | Apr 04, 2008 | Banned editors, mostly via Wikipedia Review participation | Moulton, MyWikiBiz, WordBomb, Privatemusings | | 07 | Apr 09, 2008 | NTWW, 'proxying for a banned user', opt out, BLP | Privatemusings, Filll, Ned Scott, Raul654, Durova, GTBacchus, Dtobias, FastLizard4 | | 08 | Apr 11, 2008 | 2000 FAs, migrating to CC license?, Arbcom, Medcom, legislative bodies, talk page clerking | Durova, Privatemusings, AGK, Raul654, User:Filll, Dorftrottel | | 09 | Apr 18, 2008 | IRC, Real life safety, ethnic edit warring | Privatemusings, Durova, Filll, Scartol, Steve Crossin, Dorftrottel, Zginder, Zero1328, E | | 10 | Apr 19, 2008 | BLP | Durova, Filll, Kim Bruning, Privatemusings, Dorftrottel, User:Stwalkerster, Seth Finkelstein, Bluemarine, David Shankbone | | 11 | Apr 24, 2008 | Relation of wiki to the media | Durova, Filll, Addshore, FT2, Awadewit, Xavexgoem, Kim Bruning, Dorftrottel, Seddon69, Zvika, Moulton, Brian Bergstein | | 12 | Apr 25, 2008 | Banned users at NTWW, deletion of Giovanni di Stefano, cabals, CU selection, misc | Durova, Filll, Alison, Sunderland06, Martijn Hoekstra, Zero1328, Seddon69, Steve Crossin, Qst | | 13 | Apr 30, 2008 | Trustee changes, meta community petition, Veropedia, homoeopathy, POV pushers, CAMERA lobbying | Durova, Filll, AGK, Alison, FT2, Seddon69, Shoemaker's Holiday, GerardM | | 14 | May 05, 2008 | Cinco de Mayo Frivolity | Durova, Filll, Shoemaker's Holiday, AGK, Seddon69, Steve Crossin, Dorftrottel, Martijn Hoekstra, Chetblong | | 15 | May 09, 2008 | Aussie WMF chapter update, how we appoint admins, admin IRC channel | Durova, Privatemusings, Andjam, Anthony, Filll, Seddon69, Kim Bruning, Dorftrottel, Daniel, WJBscribe, Angela | | 16 | May 16, 2008 | Fiction, Lectures, banned users, policies, interview with User:Moulton | Alison, Shoemaker's Holiday, Durova, Privatemusings, User:Moulton, Dtobias, User:Vassyana, User:Filll | | 17 | May 24, 2008 | start-up Wikipedias in African language | Durova, Awadewit, GerardM, Seddon69, Shoemaker's Holiday, Steve Crossin, Sunderland06 | | 18 | Jun 02, 2008 | Interviews with 2008 Board of Trustee candidates | Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist), Craig Spurrier, Gregory Kohs, Harel Cain, Matthew Bisanz (MBisanz), Ray Saintonge, Ad Huikeshoven, Ting Chen, Alex Bakharev (User:Alex Bakharev), Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester), Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro), Kurt M. Weber (Kmweber), Paul Williams, Ryan Postlethwaite (Ryan Postlethwaite), Samuel Klein | | 19 | Jun 20, 2008 | Wiki-stress, arbcom making policy, Parental advisory idea | Durova, Seddon69, Dtobias, Privatemusings, Shoemaker's Holiday | | 20 | Jun ??, 2008 | ?? | | | 21 | Jun 28, 2008 | Recent arbcom events | Durova, Mitchazenia, Seddon69, Shoemaker's Holiday, MBisanz | | 22 | Jun 29, 2008 | Arbcom follies and history | Durova, Shoemaker's Holiday, Awadewit, Mitchazenia, possibly Jimbo | | 23 | Jun 29, 2008 | Ting Chen chat | Ting Chen, Privatemusings | | 24 | Jul 06, 2008 | Wikiproject 24 report | Mitchazenia, Seddon, Bstone, Durova, Gerard, Dave, Steve | | 25 | Jul ??, 2008 | ?? | | | 26 | Jul 14-15, 2008 | FPic and Sound candidates, Aphid, wikiprojects | User:Durova, User:Filll, User:Mitchazenia, User:Shoemaker's Holiday | | 27 | Jul 18, 2008 | Special IRC log session | Privatemusings | | 28 | Jul 23, 2008 | Commons plugin, flagged revisions, BLP and BOO, Wikimania, editor retention | User:Durova, User:Filll, User:Privatemusings, User:Seddon, User:Kim Bruning | | 29 | Jul 30, 2008 | How Skype works, make FAs, COI in Australia | User:Durova, User:Filll, User:Privatemusings | | 30 | Aug 12, 2008 | ?? | Durova, Awadewit, Mitchazenia, Dendodge, AGK, Cometstyles, Stwalkerster, Qst | | 31 | Aug 21, 2008 | Interview with Newyorkbrad, arbitrator | Privatemusings, Newyorkbrad | | 32 | Aug 23, 2008 | Discussion on copyediting | Scartol, Awadewit, Filll, Yllosubmarine, Moni3 | | 33 | Sep 18, 2008 | Projects and subprojects, featured sounds, checkuser & socking/rfa/crats/ | Durova, Rlevse, FT2 (via chat), Bastique, Shoemaker's Holiday, Mitchazenia | | 34 | Sep 26, 2008 | Created the article "Frog Legs Rag" and expanded to DYK size in real time. | Durova, Gary King, Shoemaker's Holiday, Mitchazenia, Xavexgoem, Zginder | | 35 | Oct 25, 2008 | Inclusionism and deletionism, DYK, Moving to Meta: it's been proposed that Not the Wikipedia Weekly head over to Meta under a new name. Like that idea? If so, let's brainstorm the new name, Sign writing, and Wikipedia:Service awards | Durova, Gary King, Mitchazenia, AGK (via text), Privatemusings, Dendodge, Seddon, GerardM | | New name: Wikivoices | | 36 | Nov 10, 2008 | Creating an article and content development | Scartol, Awadewit, Filll, Moni3 | | 37 | Nov 28, 2008 | Working on controversial articles | Scartol, Raul654, Awadewit, TimVickers, NancyHeise, ImperfectlyInformed, Filll, Durova | | 38 | Dec 2, 2008 | Arbcom elections | Daniel, ST47, Pharos, WJBscribe, Privatemusings | | 39 | December 2, 2008 | Our first foray into video podcasting; User:Sj chats about the One laptop per child project | Sj | | 40 | February 5, 2009 | Mediation and other difficult things | Dendodge, Durova, Gary King, Jay97112cloverdale, Mardetanha, Millosh | | 41 | March 31, 2009 | Wikipedia assignments and Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia | Robert Cummings (author of Lazy Virtues), Awadewit, Ragesoss, John Broughton, Durova, AEG English4994 | | 42 | May 17, 2009 | Wikipedia growth and Articles for Deletion @ Wikimedia NYC | Becksguy and Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC live participants | | 43 | June 14, 2009 | Wiki Takes Philadelphia! | Mblumber, Nick of Free Culture Swarthmore, Pharos, Phyllis, University City High School teacher and MAGPI Fellow | | 44 | Jul 14, 2009 | NPG legal threat, ArbCom advisory committee | Durova, Mitchazenia, Andrew Lih, Andrew Phillips, Awadewit, Brett Hillebrand, Danaman5, Peter Symonds, Sage Ross, Samuel Wantman, Seddon, WereSpielChequers, Ynhockey | | 45 | | Trustee elections | Not yet edited, unlikely to be. | | 46 | 29–30 July 2009 | Queen of Hearts DYK | Durova, Shoemaker's Holiday, Awadewit, NuclearWarfare, WereSpielChequers | | 47 | August 24, 2009 | FAC reviewing | Awadewit, David Fuchs, Jarry1250, Jappalang (via talk page before the show), Juliancolton, Matthewedwards, Mitchazenia, NuclearWarfare, and Shoemaker's Holiday | | 48 | September 20, 2009 | Sound restorations | Adam Cuerden | | 49 | September 12, 2009 | Wiki Takes Philadelphia and other stuff too! | Dthomsen8, Mblumber, Medvedenko, Mitchazenia, Pharos, Whiteknight | | 50 | December 13, 2009 | Internet safety for Wikipedia minors. BLP issues (including the controversial "default to delete" AFD closures), and The RFC on New Users. | Awadewit, Blurpeace, Coffee, Durova, IShadowed, Jake Wartenberg, Juliancolton, Mitchazenia, Newyorkbrad, NuclearWarfare, Privatemusings, Seddon, The Thing That Should Not Be | | 52A | November 17, 2009 | Arbitration Committee 2009 Elections Interviews - Jehochman | Jehochman, Privatemusings | | 52B | November 22, 2009 | Arbitration Committee 2009 Elections Interviews - Unomi | Unomi, Dtobias | | 52C | November 25, 2009 | Arbitration Committee 2009 Elections Interviews - Steve Smith | Steve Smith, Dtobias | | 52D | November 26, 2009 | Arbitration Committee 2009 Elections Interviews - Fred Bauder | Fred Bauder, Dtobias | | 52E | December 3, 2009 | Arbitration Committee 2009 Elections Interviews - Cla68 | Cla68, Dtobias | [edit] External site / mp3 files We've got a little external site now over at ntww.dan.info. It's just a simple page where you can stream all the files below if you like... and now we've even figured out how to put them in an RSS feed here! Below are links to externally hosted mp3 files of our conversations to date... perfect for long, sleepless nights, international air travel, or as an accompaniment to watching your recently painted fence dry... Big thanks to User:Dtobias for setting this up - and we'll hopefully have something clever like an RSS feed before too long! (...and that time is now... the feed is live!) (any help or advice on improving this would be appreciated, actually!) I'd probably recommend you save these files locally before listening... maybe by 'right clicking' and selecting 'save target as' or whichever browser message you get... [edit] Master topic list The Master topic list is a list of all the topics that have been suggested for discussion at NTWW and all the topics that have been discussed at NTWW during the scheduled episodes. [edit] Editing underway A list of episodes still in the editing room. IF SOMEONE HAS THE FILES TO THESE 4 EPISODES, PLEASE CONTACT MITCHAZENIA. (these seem to be a year old... do they even exist?) -
- Date: Monday, November 3 20:00 UTC
- Participants: Durova, Dendodge, Mitchazenia, Gary King, SVT Cobra, Pharos
- 2008 Election Results Special
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- Date: Tuesday, November 4, 23:00 UTC
- Participants: Dendodge, Pharos, Mitchazenia, Samekh, Durova, Rschen7754
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- Date: November 18, 20:00 UTC
- Participants: Steve, Valerie, GerardM, Durova
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- Date: Nov/Dec
- Participants: Privatemusings, Durova, ???
The music used is usually by Arthur Sullivan, and the main Not the Wikipedia Weekly theme tune is adapted from his Sapphire Necklace Overture. | |
