Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode64

Episode 64:Annual Report Released: November 1, 2008

WikipediaWeekly Episode 64.

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Participants: Fuzheado, Tawker, Witty Lama.

Content

• Annual report.
• general user survey- info.
• Mailing list stats indicate the community in decline.
• experiment in RfA changes fails
• What is the truth (Slashdot)
• Economy downturn to hurt Wikipedia and OSS says Keen

  Mahalo Layoffs

• Wiki Biz news: CDN Gov gets in the game
• TWiki kicks out contributors (Slashdot)

• Featured article stats [1]

As of September 16, 2008,[2] the largest featured article categories had at least 150 entries.

  1. Music
  2. Warfare
  3. Media
  4. Sport and recreation
  5. Geography and places
  6. Biology
  7. History

The smallest categories had fewer than 20 entries.

  1. Food and drink
  2. Philosophy
  3. Mathematics
  4. Language and linguistics
  5. Computing
  6. Business, economics and finance