LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008 12 16-31

• What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list wikien-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
• Time period: Dec 15-31, 2008
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Summary

1. Troubles with articles
   1. Founder of WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah, complains about Wikipedia vandalism/slander [1], more: [2], more: [3]
   2. Scholarly consensus in articles about fiction: [4]
2. Troubles with people
3. News and announcements
   1. Microbiology journal to require Wikipedia editing for certain RNA topics (see also discussion on foundation-l): [5], more: [6]
4. Stories and press about Wikipedia
5. Other
   1. is there a way to embed YouTube videos in MediaWiki? (answer, yes, there's an extension: [7]
   2. straw poll on semi-protecting BLPs [8]
   3. at least one person self-diagnosed with Wikipedia, and gave us money because of it [9]