Wikimania 2006 – Troll Talk
One of the most interesting sessions of Wikimania 2006 were the Lightning Talks (five minute speedy presentations, somewhere between a brain fart and a quick demo). I moderated two rounds of them, and learned about Webaroo’s offline Wikipedia, Yurik’s Query.php, Yellowikis, Azerbaijani and Serbian Wikipedia writing system issues, among many other things. (I will post my Lightning Talk on “Using Wikipedia Efficiently”, as promised).
But what takes the prize is Domas’s talk about “How to Read Wikipedia.” Only a few dozen people at Wikimania had the pleasure of hearing it. Fortunately, I have a recording of it for posterity.
(3.6 Mbytes in Ogg and MP3 format, 96 kbps. NullC, this Ogg’s for you.)
August 30th, 2006 00:21
[...] It is somewhat too late to post about Wikimania, so I won’t keep it long. Finally my lightning talk bits are on internet. Please note, that the idea of presentation came just few minutes before giving it. Pity there’s no video recording. [...]
August 30th, 2006 00:49
I missed out, this badge should have said “*the* troll. Thanks for the good laugh.
PS. Totally unrelated, the lines around the fields for comments are way too pale for me to see them on my screen. Kind of weird writing in limbo.
March 29th, 2007 04:15
Hi Andrew,
Just wanted to tell you that there’s a new version of Webaroo now available. You may want to try it out – http://www.webaroo.com.”
For a quick download here is the url
http://www.webaroo.com/download