The World According to Wikipedia

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The World According to Wikipedia episodes

October 26, 2022 S3 Ep30: Wiki Witchfinder General
In our final episode of the season we talk to Maggie Lin about the Witchfinder General data visualisation project at the University of Edinburgh. We talk spooky stories and Halloween food like Barm Brack

Fionnuala finally has enough of the Wiki rules when Rebecca talks about a wiki-essay.
Our Wikihero is Wikidata - Congratulations on their 10th Birthday.

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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43 min
October 12, 2022 S3 Ep29: Wikipedia: Junior Edition
In this episode we talk to Koldo Biguri about the Basque children’s Wikipedia, Txikipedia.

The "Rule" this episode is around Fringe Theories on Wikipedia. Our hero is Public Access Photos (and the Nobel Prize & Lizzo).

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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43 min
September 28, 2022 S3 Ep28: Wikimedians Assemble!
In this episode Rebecca talks about her time at the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin and the 2022 European GLAMwiki Coordinators meeting in Prague. We hear from a number of the attendees in Berlin.

We discuss the rules around starting over on Wikipedia and go a little deep on death.
We also talk about the cultural impact of the Child of Prague. Video of an incident with a chicken.

Our hero this episode is the Italian language group, Wiki Donne alongside Europlanet Society, Women In Red, 500 Women Scientists, Wikimujeres, Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia Espana.

Transcript of Anass from Morocco: “Hello, this is Anass from Wikimedia Morocco. I came to this summit in Germany and met many people from several countries. We talked about our different projects and activities in our regions. I spoke about the MCDC, the movement charter drafting committee that I am a member of. Thank you very much all. I hope that you are doing well”

Transcript of Ivan from Mexico: "Hello, my name is Ivan, volunteer at Wikimedia Mexico. One of the most valuable things for me of the Wikimedia Summit is to have reconnected with people, to have seen them face to face after so long and moreover the excitement of knowing that we will continue together doing nice projects."

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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35 min
September 14, 2022 S3 Ep27: Wikipedia in a nutshell
In this episode we talk to Jake Orlowitz, founder of the Wikipedia Library and Wiki Blueprint. Rebecca explains the Wikipedia equivalent of Too Long: Didn't Read, and our Wiki Hero is actually a correction! We go into more detail about Swedish Wikipedia.

Jake's book: https://www.jakeorlowitz.com/book/
The Wiki-Library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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40 min
August 31, 2022 S3 Ep26: Laying down the Law on Wikipedia
In this episode we talk to Brian McKenzie, senior lecturer at Maynooth University in Critical Skills. Rebecca talks about her favourite essays and our Hero of the episode is Neechalkaran who used village level data released openly by the Tamil Nadu government to populate more than 25k articles on Tamil Wikipedia.

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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38 min
August 17, 2022 S3 Ep25: Live at Wikimania 2022
In this episode we are live at Wikimania with Darach O'Séaghdha as our guest of honour.

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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39 min
August 03, 2022 S3 Ep24: Socially Studying Wikipedia
In this episode Rebecca talks to Taha Yasseri, an Associate Professor at UCD's School of Sociology. Rebecca also talks about her time at the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention in Maynooth.

We talk about draft manifesto that came out of discussions at the conference.

Our hero of the episode is the Ukranian Wikipedia editor Antanana for continuing her 100 Wikidays despite the invasion of Ukraine.

Links mentioned in the episode:
Librarians Aloud: https://soundcloud.com/librariansaloud
Wikimania: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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36 min
July 13, 2022 S3 Ep23: Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia
In this episode we talk to Annie Rauwerda, the creator of the social media phenomena - The Depths of Wikipedia. Rebecca goes into more detail on the requirement for high quality references on Wikipedia. The Wiki-heores of the episode are all those undertaking the 100 Wiki-days editing challenge. Rebecca reminisces about her 100-Wiki days.

Depths of Wikipedia links:
https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki
https://www.instagram.com/depthsofwikipedia
https://www.tiktok.com/@depthsofwikipedia

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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39 min
June 29, 2022 S3 Ep22: Building Wikipedia
In this episode Rebecca talks to Lodewijk Gelauff - The winner of the Wikimedian of the year 2021, "20th Year Honouree", award. Fionnuala learns the rules around biographies of living people. And the episode's hero is WikiProject: Video Games.

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/
Find Rebecca on Twitter at @restlesscurator and Fionnuala at @Ickle_tayto

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33 min
June 15, 2022 S3 Ep21: New and Improved on Wikipedia
In this episode, we talk to Carma Citrawati (Citra) an Indonesian teacher, short story writer, and Wikimedian Newcomer of the Year 2021.

Rebecca discusses wikipedians and changing lightbulbs and our hero of the episode is Colin Morris who has figured out the least viewed pages on english language Wikipedia.

We also talk abou the upcoming Wiki-related conference in Ireland: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention

Logo design by Trish O'Flaherty: https://www.trishoflahertydesign.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/world_wikipedia
Website: https://www.headstuff.org/the-world-according-to-wikipedia/

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31 min

About The World According to Wikipedia

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Lifting the lid on the weird and wonderful world of Wikipedia. The World According to Wikipedia is a show that takes a good long look at the inner workings of Wikipedia and the people that keep it…