Episodes

  • S3 Ep30: Wiki Witchfinder General

    S3 Ep30: Wiki Witchfinder General
    Oct 26 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • S3 Ep29: Wikipedia: Junior Edition

    S3 Ep29: Wikipedia: Junior Edition
    Oct 12 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • S3 Ep28: Wikimedians Assemble!

    S3 Ep28: Wikimedians Assemble!
    Sep 28 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • S3 Ep27: Wikipedia in a nutshell

    S3 Ep27: Wikipedia in a nutshell
    Sep 14 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • S3 Ep26: Laying down the Law on Wikipedia

    S3 Ep26: Laying down the Law on Wikipedia
    Aug 31 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • S3 Ep25: Live at Wikimania 2022

    S3 Ep25: Live at Wikimania 2022
    Aug 17 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • S3 Ep24: Socially Studying Wikipedia

    S3 Ep24: Socially Studying Wikipedia
    Aug 3 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • S3 Ep23: Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia

    S3 Ep23: Plumbing the Depths of Wikipedia
    Jul 13 2022
    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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins