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dot com: The Hacking episodes

February 01, 2022 Redditland | Ep 1 | Gamestop
In late 2020 a comment was posted on the social media website Reddit. It might have been inconsequential. Forgotten. But it wasn't, and soon the world's eyes were on the site. It tipped the first domino that, a few months later, would flip the stock market upside down and set Wall Street on fire. This is the story of David and Goliath, and the start of presenter Katie Puckrik's journey into the world of this lesser-known website - where communities flourish and irony reigns supreme.
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46 min
January 28, 2022 Coming soon: Redditland
From the makers of dot com: The Wikipedia Story, this is dot com: Redditland.

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6 min
November 23, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 6 | Our Work is Never Done
It's the final episode, and Katie's looking to the future. The internet, the World Wide Web and Wikipedia are built on wonderful ideals of openness and not-for-profit knowledge for all. But they're not owned by anybody, and those ideals are being attacked. So Katie's asking: where is this all headed? And at the centre of it all...can Wikipedia survive?
The clip used in the episode is from Wikimedia Commons and is published under a Creative Commons license. No changes were made. Tim Berners-Lee changed the world 25 years ago (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: BBC).

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54 min
November 23, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 6 | Our Work Is Never Done
It's the final episode, and Katie's looking to the future. The internet, the World Wide Web and Wikipedia are built on wonderful ideals of openness and not-for-profit knowledge for all. But they're not owned by anybody, and those ideals are being attacked. So Katie's asking: where is this all headed? And at the centre of it all...can Wikipedia survive?
The clip used in the episode is from Wikimedia Commons and is published under a Creative Commons license. No changes were made. Tim Berners-Lee changed the world 25 years ago (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: BBC).
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54 min
November 16, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 5 | Wikimania
Katie's been in this world, this weird and wacky Wikiverse, for about six months now. But there's one thing she still doesn't understand. Wikipedia's more than just a URL, a web page on your screen. It's a community where people form a deep connection with the world...right? But when the power's switched off and the screen goes black, does that bond stay put or does it flicker and disappear? In this episode, Katie's taking you somewhere she hopes to find the answer. She imagines what it's like to be at Wikimania, the annual wiki conference, where the dots are connected between your username and your face, and the strength of that bond is tested in the real world.
The clips used in this episode are from Wikimedia Commons and are published under the Creative Commons License. No changes we made. Wikimania 2015 - Jimmy Wales - State of the wiki (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia México); Wikimania 2018 - Closing Session (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia Foundation).

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42 min
November 16, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 5 | Wikimania
Katie's been in this world, this weird and wacky Wikiverse, for about six months now. But there's one thing she still doesn't understand. Wikipedia's more than just a URL, a web page on your screen. It's a community where people form a deep connection with the world...right? But when the power's switched off and the screen goes black, does that bond stay put or does it flicker and disappear? In this episode, Katie's taking you somewhere she hopes to find the answer. She imagines what it's like to be at Wikimania, the annual wiki conference, where the dots are connected between your username and your face, and the strength of that bond is tested in the real world.
The clips used in this episode are from Wikimedia Commons and are published under the Creative Commons License. No changes we made. Wikimania 2015 - Jimmy Wales - State of the wiki (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia México); Wikimania 2018 - Closing Session (cc-by-sa-3.0, author: Wikimedia Foundation).
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43 min
November 09, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 4 | Hoax
Pizzagate! Covid's made up! Trump really won! Cher's dead! We're ruled by lizards and Q rules all! Fake news, misinformation, or (to call a spade a spade) lies. We all know them. We've seen them around, on Twitter, Youtube, Reddit. But how does Wikipedia deal with breaking news and hoaxes? How do the editors sift the believable from the bull? Many lies get caught. But some manage to slip through the net and onto the page, where they take root and burst into seed in ways we can't imagine.

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44 min
November 09, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 4 | Hoax
Pizzagate! Covid's made up! Trump really won! Cher's dead! We're ruled by lizards and Q rules all! Fake news, misinformation, or (to call a spade a spade) lies. We all know them. We've seen them around, on Twitter, Youtube, Reddit. But how does Wikipedia deal with breaking news and hoaxes? How do the editors sift the believable from the bull? Many lies get caught. But some manage to slip through the net and onto the page, where they take root and burst into seed in ways we can't imagine.
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45 min
November 02, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 3 | Moving The Needle
Have you noticed anything about most of the Wikipedians we've met so far? One little thing they all have in common? Katie has. We've only heard two women. Two women and eight men. That's not great, but it's normal. There are deep, systemic problems with Wikipedia: 90% of editors are male, and they're overwhelmingly white. Only 5.5% of all articles on Wikipedia are to do with the entire continent of Africa. So Katie's asking, why? What does this mean for the 'sum total of all human knowledge'? And can anything be done?

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49 min
November 02, 2021 The Wikipedia Story | Ep 3 | Moving The Needle
Have you noticed anything about most of the Wikipedians we've met so far? One little thing they all have in common? Katie has. We've only heard two women. Two women and eight men. That's not great, but it's normal. There are deep, systemic problems with Wikipedia: 90% of editors are male, and they're overwhelmingly white. Only 5.5% of all articles on Wikipedia are to do with the entire continent of Africa. So Katie's asking, why? What does this mean for the 'sum total of all human knowledge'? And can anything be done?
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49 min

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