I've posted a copy of the notes that I've digitally taken for the Best Of #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows that I didn't have individual panelists entered for.
Yeah, I know, I'm using on Google Docs to share this (but not the canonical version).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sYes7V7ELjhjKNmsehEgV8NjQsvepYALKvD1mGz-Cko/edit?usp=sharing
I'm wrapping up listening to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Best Of shows that I didn't have individual panelists entered into the Stats Database. So, I've been taking notes on panelists that I can pick out and the show date for those original clips and segments.
Of course, the last show of that group I'm listening to ends up being a show that I'm mentioned in for registering a random domain name a panelist blurted out 
Oops... at some point, MySQL replication broke between the two Wait Wait Stats Project production servers. Not sure what happened, but it's back up and running now.
I've published a new blog post with some updates on the Wait Wait Stats Project, including version 4.0 of the Wait Wait Reports Site going live yesterday.
https://linhpham.org/blog/2025/wait-wait-stats-update-july-2025/
One of the tools that I have been using to determine the original show date and verify the panelists (although I can recognize most by voice, but there are some panelists that I haven't heard for a very long time) is the "Search Shows by Multiple Panelists" report that I build back in May 2022.
The report allows me to select 1, 2 or 3 panelists and it will return a list of shows they have in common.
https://reports.wwdt.me/shows/search-shows-by-multiple-panelists
It's times like these that I'm glad that I started taking some notes from the 1998 and 1999 #WaitWait shows, including some details re: Bluff the Listener segment. I'm able to quickly narrow down the show that the Best Of segment comes from.
By the way, I've uploaded photos of each show notes that I've been taking over the past few years.
https://flickr.com/photos/questionlp/albums/72157718939162790
Starting to go through previous #WaitWait shows that I don't have panelists entered into the Stats Database. First up is the Best Of show from December 25, 2004.
When I took notes for those shows, it was before #NPR had any kind of transcription of the shows or the transcriptions didn't always note all of the panelists (especially for those speaking in the background or was spoken over by someone else).
I have been putting off re-listening through the #WaitWaitDontTellMe shows from 2000 onwards for some time.
I guess it was a good decision since I have 9 Best Of shows (technically 13, but 4 are repeats) where I need to collect panelist appearance information.
When I re-worked the hosting of the Wait Wait Stats Project by re-adding a caching proxy in front of the web app servers (that so happen to also host replicated copies of the Stats Database).
The name of the new server is based on a technical director of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Why I focused on the title "technical director" is that I used to manage Cisco LocalDirector load balancers.
The new server is basically a version of a local director, or in more modern technical terms... a load balancer.
I have finished detached my personal domains from Cloudflare, migrating DNS hosting back to the domain registrar.
The Wait Wait Stats Project sites and the domain have also been detached from Cloudflare, DNS hosting migrated to the domain registrar, and now waiting for the subscription to expire.
So far, fronting the two Wait Wait Stats Project web servers with an NGINX caching proxy has met my needs to handling spikes in traffic (as it did during and after last week's Wait Wait taping in Boston, MA).
There are still things I need to tune re: caching duration, rules and what-not.
Based on some of the analytics, I have a feeling that Joyelle Nicole Johnson will be on the panel for this week's #WaitWaitDontTellMe.
Possible other panelists: Maz Jobrani and Adam Felber.
I was able to get my personal sites detached from CloudFlare. I'm just waiting for domain registration and DNS changes to propagate.
The Wait Wait Stats API is now detached from CloudFlare. I will be working on getting the Stats Page and both the Graphs and the Reports Sites detached next weekend or the weekend after.
Starting to detach some of the ancillary sites for the Wait Wait Stats Project from CloudFlare today.
I'll slowly work on migrating the main sites out from CloudFlare and on to load balanced servers over the next couple of weeks.
