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Episode 101: Secret Identities: 23 September 2013
Released: TBD * Listen on archive.orgMetadata page on archive.org

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This episode available at: YouTube

Planned time

  • Google Hangouts, Monday, Sep 23, 9pm Eastern US time. Contact: Andrew Lih or Facebook group

Participants:

Roundtable Topics

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tracking editors evolution of references evolution of reliable reports and auto-flagging parts of an article based on erroneous reports vandalism and locking, reactions section better tools for searching within edit history (WikiBlame) state of tools (broken and maintenance) - WikiDashboard from PARC is dead, Toolserver vs WikiLabs a primer for newbies?

News and notes
  • TBD
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2        13        2        Grand Theft Auto V                1,004,366                The sequel to the most critically acclaimed video game of all time (seriously) and arguably the only situation in which someone will cheer you for hijacking and then crashing a jumbo jet full of passengers, just made $1 billion in 3 days. That's a lot of jipped prostitutes.
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5        -        -        Nina Davuluri                572,786                The first Indian American Miss America was the recipient of some singularly opinionated Tweets following her win this week; claiming that she's an immigrant (she's from New York), she's an Arab (she's Telugu) she's a Muslim (she's Hindu), and, oddest of all, that it would matter a whit if she was.
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9        -        -        Nothing Was the Same                385,859                The next album from Canadian rapper Drake will be released on September 24.
10        -        -        Volvo YCC        Unassessed        373,177                The concept car designed by women, for women got a Reddit thread on September 18.


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Preceded by Episode 101
2013-08-31
Succeeded by