Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
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This page in a nutshell: We are publishing sets of Wikipedia articles in print, CD, DVD, or some combination thereof. |
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| Release version tools Guide — (talk) — (stats) List of WikiProjects |
| Article selection process (talk) Version 0.8 bot selection |
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| Version 0.8 release (manual selection) (t) (Nominations) (t) [You can help] |
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[edit] General background
In 2003, Jimmy Wales proposed making an offline release version of Wikipedia. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving/maintaining a core set. Our work does not hinder the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles, but rather it supports that work by providing additional organization.
See these more detailed related articles:
[edit] How you can help
You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on the talk page. A significant part of our work centers around maintaining the assessment scheme, which is now used on more than two million articles by over 1000 WikiProjects on the English Wikipedia. It is also being used on other language projects. Generally work on this team is sporadic - periods of hectic activity followed by long periods of waiting! Often work is long and tedious - checking through a list of 22,000 instances of profanities one by one, organizing 10,000 keywords taken from category names, or dealing with technical bugs when the assessment bot fails for no apparent reason. However, it's all worth it in the end.
Our strategy has been intensely debated, but the group has reached a consensus. We elected not to follow the German model. Instead we chose to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We have produced two test versions (Version 0.5 and Version 0.7), with the goal of releasing better collections of articles in due course. The next general release is generically referred to as "Release Version" while our first "official" comprehensive release will be called Version 1.0. As of July 2010, we are currently working on Version 0.8.
[edit] Current needs
Although we have much of our needed system automated, there are still some tasks needing work:
- Preparation of a reliable index. If you can write code and you're interested in how to map category trees into a useful index (not as easy as it sounds!) please contact Walkerma.
- Reviewing manual nominations. Whenever there is a new release being planned, we need volunteers to review a few articles and process them.
- Propose useful "guide" pages to be added, such as lists, disambiguation pages, etc.
- Check for vandalism in the selected versionIDs of the articles.
- Develop nice pages for navigation through the content, such as subject portals.
- Test reader software and find/report bugs.
- Help with distribution, especially in remote areas without internet access.
Please let us know if you can help with any of these.
[edit] Status
We are now mainly using bot-assisted selection based on assessment by WikiProjects and importance rankings. We are also developing a method to automate version selection using WikiTrust, to ensure that vandalism does not end up in our offline releases; we may also use Flagged Revisions once established.
For our next release - tentatively called Version 0.8, we plan to work with the "Selection project" which produced its last "Wikipedia for Schools" in autumn 2008. Articles are selected automatically based on quality and importance.
- As of March 2010, over 2,200,000 articles have been assessed for the project by over 1000 WikiProjects. This work has begun to spread to other language Wikipedias. More...
- Now that lists of articles are easily available for many WikiProjects, the Work via WikiProjects is switching to a new area of work, in collaboration with WP:COUNCIL. The group will now focus on identifying, tagging and assessing important articles that lack WikiProject oversight, while continuing with its role of facilitating the introduction of assessment into new areas.
- We are working with the Wikimedia Offline Strategy Taskforce.
[edit] Wikipedia 1.0 projects
[edit] Active projects
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| Name | Summary of overall strategy | Coordinator | Description of activities | ||||
| Release Version (next version will be Version 0.8) | Create an article selection of the most important and high quality articles, using automation to expedite the process. Articles are selected using the 1.0 bot (based on the 1.0 assessment scheme) and it is hoped that version selection can be based on an algorithm of the WikiTrust project. | User:Walkerma | On hold, until Walkerma comes back off wikibreak (mid-July 2010). Version 0.8 will combine effort with the "Selection project" group, to utilize the best tools and people from both projects, with improved article and version selection. | ||||
| "Selection" project (previously called "Test Version") | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo | User:BozMo | BozMo's group has already released two versions, with 2000 and 4000+ articles respectively, with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). The 2008 selection was released in autumn 2008. | ||||
| Work Via WikiProjects (WVWP) | Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists | User:Walkerma | Organise and facilitate compilation of article lists from the WikiProjects and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. Locate important topics that are currently not being managed by projects. In conjunction with WP:COUNCIL, the project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers. | ||||
| Torrent Project | To distribute Wikipedia CD by the means of file sharing. | User:Nominaladversary (currently on a very long Wikibreak) | We strive to make an alternate download of the CDs through the use of the BitTorrent and ED2K Networks. | ||||
| Core Topics | Small foundation based on core topics, build from there. | User:Maurreen (currently on Wikibreak) | Improve a set of around 160 articles on top-level subjects, plus around 200 high level articles in a supplement, through a COTF and other collaborations. Once these reach a publishable standard, a further set of key topics will be assessed and brought up to standard. | ||||
[edit] Past releases
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| Name | Summary of overall strategy | Month of release | Description of activities | Website | Next release | ||
| Version 0.5 | A test release prior tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team&action=edit§ion=4 release of Version 1.0 above. | April 2007 | A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used manual nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval was only by one person, from the review team. | [1] | Version 0.7 | ||
| Version 0.7 | A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of Version 1.0 above. | Early 2010 | A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used SelectionBot to make an article selection based on importance and quality. Vandalism prevention used a script, with manual checks, which deleayed the release significantly.| [2] | Kiwix, Okawix | Version 0.8 | ||
| 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection (previously called "Test Version") | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo | April 2006 | 2000 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | [3] | 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) | ||
| 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo | May 2007 | 4655 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | No longer available - see 2008/9 release below | 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) | ||
| 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo | October 2008 | 5502 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | http://schools-wikipedia.org | Not yet known | ||
[edit] Proposed or inactive projects
- Authoritative Editions — (other names welcome :-) aims to give experts in each field the tools to review articles in their area of expertise and give their okay particular revisions as meeting their standard of judgement.
- Allow editors to propose new groups. Ex: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
- Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
- Each blessing group would consist of this set of guidelines, and a set of users who could "bless" a revision of an article as satisfying them.
- Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
- Featured Articles First — now reviewing older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Wikipedia 1.0.
- Geography project — proposes to produce essentially a descriptive gazetteer of the world for publication. This could include an atlas, continents, countries and major cities. This would serve as a test bed for publishing Wikipedia 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product.
- Three Level Editing — lets all users participate in a three part editing process to assure that pages are up to quality standards. The first level is just a general check, the second level is a factual check, and the third level is a last "just in case" check. This process would assure that articles would be up to standards without putting too much responsibility on one user.
- Biographies — improve and assess biographical articles, especially the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography.
- Dynamic Pocket Cyclopedia Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs. An evolving list of no more than half of Wikipedia’s most important featured articles, featured lists, and designated good articles.
- WikiSort Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki. Aims to use data from the planned user rating scheme to provide rankings of articles, such that important quality articles can be automatically identified for inclusion in Wikipedia 1.0. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
- Article assessment This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
[edit] Stages to publication
On the English Wikipedia, we use the Selection Bot as part of the selection process, using the WikiProject assessments to indicate the state of each article. The online version is held on the Kiwix server while undergoing cleanup. The offline format we use is ZIM format, and the conversion is performed by User:Kelson. Currently Linterweb, a French software company, is publishing our material.
[edit] Statistics
The WP 1.0 bot tracks assessment data (article quality and importance data for individual WikiProjects) assigned via talk page banners. If you would like to add a new WikiProject to the bot's list, please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot.
The global summary table below is computed by taking the highest quality and importance rating for each assessed article in the main namespace.
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[edit] Participants
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| Unionhawk (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Dan Tromedlov (talk • contribs • count) | improve articles in assosiation with Editorial team 1.o | |
| SilentBobxy2 (talk • contribs • count) | Review articles | |
| RRaunak (talk • contribs • count) | improve article layout | finding... |
| Information Center (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Bananagirl (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Randy Johnston (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Maurreen (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Lyellin (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Jmabel (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Andrevan (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Stirling Newberry (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Fuzheado (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| David Gerard (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Hawstom (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Jdforrester (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Ed Poor (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Ugen64 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Estel (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Blyth McManus (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Radman1 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Mark Dingemanse (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Sj (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Polyparadigm (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Poli (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Asbestos (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Taxman (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Ahmednh (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Walkerma (talk • contribs • count) | Assessment & validation, chemistry | Core topics, WVWP, V0.5 onwards |
| Shanel (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Aranu (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Jossi (talk • contribs • count) | Sourcing images, article layout | Core topics |
| Fredrik (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Tastemyhouse (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Deliri (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Mahanga (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| AtionSong (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Amigaguy (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Deckiller (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Dante Alighieri (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Getcrunk (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| MatthewDBA (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Jaranda (talk • contribs • count) | work with sports biographies, hip-hop, and City articles, also WP:GA. | |
| Erielhonan (talk • contribs • count) | NPOV/spelling/grammar/style mop-up | My topical interests are widely various, so my content edits will probably reflect that. |
| Titoxd (talk • contribs • count) | Assessment, cyclones | WVWP, V0.5N |
| Cormaggio (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| E Pluribus Anthony (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| SushiGeek (talk • contribs • count) | Copyediting, Disney-related articles | |
| Sunray (talk • contribs • count) | Culture, Society, Sustainability | Core topics |
| Wisden17 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Mirlen (talk • contribs • count) | WVWP | |
| FT2 (talk • contribs • count) | Spirituality/religion, animal related, psychology/sexology Specialist enjoyment: intro redrafts and problem article cleanup. |
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| That Guy, From That Show! (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Matt Yeager (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| MilkMiruku (talk • contribs • count) | Music genres | WVWP |
| Chcknwnm (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Werdna648 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| DotShell (talk • contribs • count) | Hinduism, Jainism, India, Computers, Proper notation of Sanskrit in 1.0 | Hinduism, Jainism, India |
| Wikiwizzy (talk • contribs • count) | CD and PDA release | 0.5 version, WP:AFR |
| Alex Bakharev (talk • contribs • count) | Russian-related topics, Polymers, Australia | Portal:Russia, Portal:Ukraine |
| Matt Yeager (talk • contribs • count) | Sports, Washington | |
| Kingboyk (talk • contribs • count) | WP:KLF, WP:BEATLES, WP:QUEEN, WP:F1 | |
| NCurse (talk • contribs • count) | Science, mostly medicine, biology; | Portal:Medicine maintainer; Core topics; scientific topics |
| Covington (talk • contribs • count) | Classics, Education | |
| IRelayer (talk • contribs • count) | History, Computer Science, Aviation, Geography, Literature | |
| Geo.plrd (talk • contribs • count) | History | WP:MILHIST |
| Rnt20 (talk • contribs • count) | Astronomy, Physics, Italy, Netherlands, proofreading | |
| Rlk89 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| CQ (talk • contribs • count) | Community building: Helping to organise People, Projects, Places and Portals | /Work via Wikiprojects |
| William R. Buckley (talk • contribs • count) | Physical and Life Sciences, and Mathematics, particularly, Automata, and some History. | |
| Nominaladversary (talk • contribs • count) | Volunteering, enabling people to have more options, wikipedia cd | Torrent Project |
| Guettarda (talk • contribs • count) | Biology, Caribbean topics, science and society | |
| KillerChihuahua (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Ccool2ax (talk • contribs • count) | Macintosh, education... | |
| Jasrocks (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Badbilltucker (talk • contribs • count) | literary works, history (particularly religious history), and more | |
| Nifboy (talk • contribs • count) | WVWP, 0.5, CVG | |
| Trevor MacInnis (talk • contribs • count) | Aviation | Portal:Aviation creator and maintainer,Assessment |
| P-Chan (talk • contribs • count) | Film | |
| dna-webmaster (talk • contribs • count) | Science, History, Arts - almost everything. Work interest: General Development & Design. | Tagging articles for WPCD 1.0 |
| Setanta747 (talk • contribs • count) | WP:Belfast, Northern Ireland, WP:BEATLES, WP:F1 | |
| Eyu100 (talk • contribs • count) | WP:V0.5 | |
| Antorjal (talk • contribs • count) | Molecular biology, biochemistry, biology | |
| Kirill Lokshin (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Devious Viper (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Reswik (talk • contribs • count) | Sociology, Social sciences, Humanities | Core Topics, categorization, article eval., release design & publishing |
| Nichalp (talk • contribs • count) | India, cricket, layout, Geography, History | |
| A.JH.Ou (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Warlordjohncarter (talk • contribs • count) | assessment, religious biography, general religion/philosophy | |
| Auroranorth (talk • contribs • count) | Assessment, Western Australia-related articles | |
| SMcCandlish (talk • contribs • count) | Assessment, WikiProject template improvement with regard to assessments and such (long-term project). Topically: cue sports, albinism and various language articles, among others. | WVWP |
| Verisimilus (talk • contribs • count) | Natural sciences, esp. historical science. | WVWP |
| Funpika (talk • contribs • count) | Assesment, Technology articles and videogame articles. | V 0.7 |
| RyguyMN (talk • contribs • count) | Sports, science, technology, geography | |
| Dev920 (talk • contribs • count) | I am Coordinator of WP:LGBT, so I am quite experienced in that area. | Anything to do with actual publication, I am very keen to give us some offline legitimacy. |
| Walter_Humala (talk • contribs • count • total • block log) | I will become an admin soon | World's ethnic groups, World's Military, Peru related stuff |
| Remember (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| Greeves (talk • contribs • count) | Video games | WP:WVWP, WP:V0.7 |
| Tails0600 (talk • contribs • count) | General nominations | |
| Kleinzach (talk • contribs • count) | Opera | WP:WPO |
| Pete | Oregon, politics & government, consensus process, proper citations, outdoors | WP:WPOR |
| Doc Strange | indie rock, music, movies, television | WP:V0.7 |
| Miskin | General topics of high importance | WP:V0.7, WP:1.0 |
| Vishwin60 (talk • contribs • count) | Roads/highways, technology (mostly computers/computing) | WP:0.7, WP:1.0, WP:PENNA, WP:PHILLY, WP:LVPA, WP:USRD (and subprojects), WP:COMP (and descendant/related projects) |
| SilkTork (talk • contribs • count) | A variety of interests, though beer is the main one. | Beer |
| Pastordavid (talk • contribs • count) | Religious history, theology, philosophy | |
| Calaka (talk • contribs • count) | Medical topics, anatomy etc.Will add wiki articles to their relevant projects & eventually every article is under a wikiproject. | |
| SkyBon (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| A Raider Like Indiana (talk • contribs • count) | General Movies, Technology and sport, such as American football topics. | Core topics |
| Andrewjd (talk • contribs • count) | Anything and Everything | WP:V0.7 |
| mona23653 (talk • contribs • count) | history, language | |
| Laleena (talk • contribs • count) | Religion, books, careers, Wikification, copyediting, etc. Just ask and I'll tell you. | |
| pazan.ua (talk • contribs • count) | Ukrainian history | |
| Ivan Akira (talk • contribs • count) | Anything that I can help, I'll help. Basically, I want to improve the quality of the article and fix outline format. | |
| Shruti14 (talk • contribs • count) | multiple fields | WP:V1.0 |
| zeuspitar (talk • contribs • count) | multiple fields; all Hinduism topics, religion and mysticism. | WP:V1.0 |
| Macduffman (talk • contribs • count) | multiple fields | |
| Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs) | Psychology, Philosophy, Religion | |
| EncycloPetey (talk • contribs • count) | biology, especially botany, paleobiology, and organismal biology | WP:V1.0 |
| Voretus (talk • contribs • count) | FF7 | |
| Cantabridgian (talk • contribs • count) | Copyediting | |
| Oakwillow (talk • contribs • count) | Article selection, rating | |
| Pjoef (talk • contribs • count) | Various subjects, various WikiProjects | |
| RockManQ (talk • contribs • count) | Since I do assessment anyways, might as well join | Anywhere |
| Stepshep (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments and minor formatting | Wherever needed, generally work on Ohio-project-related articles and some medical |
| TechOutsider (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments, formatting, proofreading, expansion | Wherever needed, especially computing related articles |
| Dylanlip (talk • contribs • count) | Animatronics (Robotics), Computers, Gaming, Programming, removing cruft, etc. | WP:TP |
| astatine-210 (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments, formatting, proofreading, expansion | Wherever needed, especially computing related articles and chemistry-related |
| Renaissancee (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments, minor re-formatting, proofreading and review | Preferably Medical-related areas |
| Zenman (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments and minor formatting | generally work on Côte d'Ivoire-project-related articles |
| SusanLesch (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments and reassessments | |
| Shuggiebear97 (talk • contribs • count) | ||
| The spesh man (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments and Re-assessments, reviewing country related things (like limmited recognition's) | For now: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes/Assessment, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceans/Assessment, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia/Assessment |
| Adavis444 (talk • contribs • count) | Assessing unassessed articles and finding WikiProjects for articles without one | WP:WVWP, numerous other WikiProjects |
| Tyrol5 (talk • contribs • count) | Article assessments | |
| Mheart (talk • contribs • count) | Assessments, formatting. | |
| Diego Grez (talk • contribs • count) | Assessing articles, specially Chile-related ones. | Chile, Pichilemu, 80s and 60s music. |
| Anikingos (talk • contribs • count) | Assessing, copyediting, reviewing etc. |
Participants, add {{User WP1.0}} to your userpage to add this userbox identifying you as a part of this project:
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[edit] Related pages
[edit] General
- Jimbo's proposal, Chicago Meetup - Jimbo's Oct 2004 ideas on how to get to 1.0.
- Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0 Early discussion page for brainstorming ideas, before this team was created.
- meta:Wikipedia_1.0
- meta:Static content group
[edit] Assessment and validation
- Wikipedia:Article assessment
- meta:Article validation and Wikipedia:Pushing to validation - argue the benefit of article validation and possible implementations
- Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (similar to the older "stable versions")
- Wikipedia:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Peer review
- Wikipedia:Request for comment
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
[edit] Wikireaders
- Wikipedia:WikiReader & meta:WikiReader - WikiReaders are collections of articles from Wikipedia on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form.
- The Book Tool, and Wiki to print, a collaboration between the Foundation and OSI/PediaPress.
[edit] Article selections
- Wikipedia:Vital articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - Filling the gaps.
- Wikipedia:Good articles
- Featured Articles
- Wikipedia:Stable versions
[edit] See also
- List of online encyclopedias - compare Wikipedia with other projects
