Wikipedia:NotTheWikipediaWeekly

Meet Samantha, executive producer and spokesmodel for NotTheWikipediaWeekly.

Passive participation

You can easily 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 Not be Wikipedia Weeklys. Consensus at this page will determine whether or not they remain officially NotTheWikipediaWeekly however! Please do get involved!

A word of caution

Please note that Skype is not a safe environment, and it is not Wikipedia. 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 Not The Wikipedia Weekly discussion is to first join the NTWW 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 NTWW 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.

[edit] Our next Skypecast

[edit] Date and time

• To be agreed upon; feel free to propose times (in UTC).
  • 23:30 UTC, June 12 anyone? Daniel (talk) 05:30, 12 June 2008 (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.

• 'ID' related issues - an attempt to calmly dissect some of the tensions causing damage to the project at the moment (see talk for further posts on this subject - copied there as a 'better fit'). - Privatemusings (talk) 02:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Board elections. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Singing Trial by Jury. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Global rights usage. Daniel (talk) 08:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

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

• So long as the time is BST-friendly. Anthøny 16:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Come on that's so unfair :(. Make it EST :) Mellie ♥ 10:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
• Make mine the American version of EST, or rather, at this time of year, EDT. *Dan T.* (talk) 22:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
• Happy to host - and waiting on Filll and Odd nature to try and find a suitable time.... Privatemusings (talk) 02:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• I would be delighted if it could be on a weekend, but I don't really care. My preferred time is between 06:00 - 10:00 UTC on weekdays, or 20:00 - 12:00 UTC on weekends. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Not been on skype enough for a while, so whenever is good. Al Tally ^talk 11:11, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
• Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Our latest recorded Skypecast

Interview special with the candidates for the 2008 elections of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Steve Smith Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Craig Spurrier Craig Spurrier (Cspurrier) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Gregory Kohs Gregory Kohs (Thekohser) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Harel Cain Harel Cain (Harel) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Matthew Bisanz Matthew Bisanz (MBisanz) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Ray Saintonge (Eclecticology) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Ad Huikeshoven Ad Huikeshoven (Dedalus) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Ting Chen Ting Chen (Wing) candidate presentation interview Problems listening to the file? See media help.

The following interviews are not yet complete Do you have skype? A spare moment? - the candidates have been exceptionally friendly to me, and I'm sure you'd be welcome to get in touch, and complete an interview! - be bold!
Alex Bakharev Alex Bakharev candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester) candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro) candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Kurt M. Weber (Kmweber) candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Paul Williams (Skenmy) candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.	Ryan Postlethwaite candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.
Samuel Klein (Sj) candidate presentation interview Image:... * interview not uploaded yet * Problems listening to the file? See media help.

[edit] Date and time

June 2nd, 2008

[edit] Episode archives

[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 might in due course have clever things like an RSS feed, or something like that - when we figure that out...

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! (any help or advice on 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] Help

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