Wikipedia:Wikivoices

Meet Samantha, executive producer and spokesmodel for Wikivoices. She heads our board of directors

Passive participation

You're welcome to listen to our latest skypecast 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 Skypecast 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!

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

Method one

• One way to join a Wikivoices discussion is to first join the Wikivoices Skype public chat before the Skypecast 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 Skypecast or Skype conference call.

Method two

• Another method that is available when a Skypecast room and number is provided is to click on the number or link below to enter the Skypecast room. A link to join the 'room' will appear on this page about half an hour before the scheduled start time of the conversation, if a Skypecast room is available (which will not always be true, given the time and Skype traffic).
• If you have Skype installed on your machine, all you will need to do to participate is click on the link. It can take a few attempts to connect to the Skypecast. If you have any questions, other participants will be monitoring this page, the associated talk page, and likely be available on IRC and in the NTWW Skype public chat also. Feel free to ask for help if you are having trouble connecting. We'll do what we can to help.

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.

(subscribe) (update) WikiVoices Episode 43 : Wiki Takes Philadelphia! 14 June 2009 Join our next conversation! Contents 1 Our next Skypecast 1.1 Date and time 1.2 Suggested topics 1.3 Participants 2 Latest episodes 2.1 Our latest recorded Skypecast 2.1.1 Topics discussed in this episode 2.1.2 Participants 3 Episode archives 3.1 Episodes by topic and participants 3.2 External site / mp3 files 3.3 Master topic list 3.4 Editing underway 4 Music 5 Help 6 See also

   

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[edit] Our next Skypecast

[edit] Date and time

• To be agreed upon; feel free to propose times (in UTC).
• Whenever, whatever. Just a simple show up, talk for twenty minutes, publish immediately. NW (Talk) 05:12, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested topics

Feel free to suggest topics for the upcoming episode below. See also the suggested topics page and our master topic list.

• Whenever, whatever. Just a simple show up, talk for twenty minutes, publish immediately. NW (Talk) 05:12, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

• Results of the usability survey
• The Simple English Wikipedia
• Automated edits, and RfA.
• Recent changes patrol, the implications of doing it when Wikipedia was newer, and the implications now.

[edit] Participants

Sign below to give us an estimate of how many people are going to participate.

• Hilarleo ^Hey,L.E.O.
• NW (Talk) 05:12, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Latest episodes

[edit] Our latest recorded Skypecast

Episode 43 Wiki Takes Philadelphia! Wikipedia growth and Articles for Deletion @ Wikimedia NYC discussion recorded live at Wiki Philadelphia meeting Problems listening to this file? See media help.

Date and time

14 June 2009

Length: 53m 21s

Topics discussed in this episode

• Wikipedia Takes Manhattan
• Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia
• Wikipedia:School and university projects

Participants

• Recorded live among Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 8 participants

• User:Mblumber
• Nick of Free Culture Swarthmore
• User:Pharos
• Phyllis, University City High School teacher and MAGPI Fellow

[edit] Episode archives

• Do note that a partial podcast set is currently available via iTunes for download.

[edit] Episodes by topic and participants

[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.

• Wikinews

• Date: Monday, November 3 20:00 UTC
• Participants: Durova, Dendodge, Mitchazenia, Gary King, SVT Cobra, Pharos

• 2008 Election Results Special

• Date: Tuesday, November 4, 23:00 UTC
• Participants: Dendodge, Pharos, Mitchazenia, Samekh, Durova

• SignWriting

• Date: November 18, 20:00 UTC
• Participants: Steve, Valerie, GerardM, Durova

• Arbcom interviews

• Date: Nov/Dec
• Participants: Privatemusings, Durova, ???

[edit] Music

The music used is usually by Arthur Sullivan, and the main Not the Wikipedia Weekly theme tune is adapted from his Sapphire Necklace Overture.

[edit] Help

• how to host a conference
• Skype usage hints and miscellaneous NTWW stuff

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Radio Wikipedia 2