Deletionpedia
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| Deletionpedia | |
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| URL | http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Internet encyclopedia project |
| Registration | None |
| Available language(s) | English |
Deletionpedia is a web site containing articles deleted from Wikipedia. So far it has collected about 64,000 articles such as a list of films with monkeys in them. Some of the articles have been deleted for being uninteresting while other deletions are the result of manipulation by political and business interests.[1]
The site is based on MediaWiki, though updates have been botsourced. It supports categorization of its content, used to organize pages by what month they were deleted, how many editors had worked on a page, how long they had lasted on Wikipedia (thousands of pages lasted over 1000 days before they were deleted[2]), and pages which are lists, among others.
Like Wikipedia, Deletionpedia avoids hosting deleted pages that are copyright violations, pages with serious libel problems, pages whose full revision history is still available on Wikipedia or its sister sites, and pages which set out to offend others.[3] Unlike Wikipedia, the site seeks no donations, suggesting instead that supporters donate to mySociety or to the Wikimedia Foundation.[4]
The Wall Street Journal cited it as a response to the culture clash that exists on Wikipedia between deletionists and inclusionists.[5] The Industry Standard calls it a "a fine research project for sociology students to study what groupthink does when applied to a community-built compendium of knowledge."[6] The Industry Standard article in September 2008 made the website a victim of the Slashdot effect.[7] Shortly thereafter, the Industry Standard again turned its attention to Deletionpedia, reporting that deletion of the article in Wikipedia about Deletionpedia was itself under discussion, suggesting that the article was not being considered for deletion based on "insignificance of the site" but rather "due to perceived criticism of Wikipedia itself."[8] Deletionpedia also made news at De Telegraaf, the website for the largest daily morning Dutch language newspaper,[9] and the The Inquirer, a British technology tabloid website.[10]
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[edit] Related proposals
Deletionpedia is a third party example of what CIO magazine called a "Wikimorgue"; in September 2007 they called such a site a "small but powerful check on Wikipedia's editors, who might think twice about deleting articles if they knew that by routine practice and internal policy, Wikipedia preserved all deleted pages, including their histories and discussions."[11]
In April 2008, Nicholson Baker proposed the creation of "Deletopedia" because:[12]
- "a lot of good work - verifiable, informative, brain-leapingly strange - is being cast out of this paperless, infinitely expandable accordion folder by people who have a narrow notion of what sort of curiosity an online encyclopedia should be able to satisfy."
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- ^ Henning Steier (19 Sep 2008), Friedhof der Wikipedia-Artikel, 20 minuten, <http://www.20min.ch/digital/webpage/story/Friedhof-der-Wikipedia-Artikel-23217219>
- ^ Deletionpedia:Pages on Wikipedia for 1000 or more days, from the Deletionpedia website
- ^ Deletionpedia:Archive, from the Deletionpedia website
- ^ Deletionpedia:Donate, from the Deletionpedia website
- ^ Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt, by James Gleick. The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008
- ^ Deletionpedia: Where Wikipedia entries go to die, by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira. The Industry Standard, posted September 17, 2008.
- ^ Discussion about deletionpedia at Slashdot
- ^ "A Catch 22 for Wikipedia: Should the Deletionpedia entry be deleted?" by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira. The Industry Standard, posted Sept. 19, 2008.
- ^ Rustplaats voor afgedankte Wiki-bijdragen (Dutch), a September 2008 article from De Telegraaf
- ^ Deletionpedia: Gelöschte Wikipedia-Artikel zum Nachschlagen This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia., a 18 September 2008 article from The Inquirer.
- ^ Wikipedia's Awkward Adolescence, from CIO magazine
- ^ How I fell in love with Wikipedia, an April 2008 article in The Guardian, written by Nicholson Baker
