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We are working toward a set of articles suitable for release in print, CD, DVD, or some combination.


How you can help

We have a number of subprojects. Here are the most active.

Choose articles

Improve articles

Technical work

Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists.

General background

This may involve identifying, improving or maintaining selected articles. In 2003, Jimmy Wales proposed making a release version. Our work will not affect the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles. We are aiming to begin with a set of quality articles on key subjects (core topics) and to build a full encyclopedia from this base.

You're encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on the talk page. Discussion is also welcome in our IRC channel, #wikipedia-1.0 on the freenode network (you will need IRC client software for this).

Our strategy has been intensely debated, but the group has reached a consensus. We elected not to follow the German model. Instead we aim to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We plan to produce a smaller test version before releasing a larger collection of articles.

Status

Much of the work so far has centered on identifying important topics and assessing articles. We are now beginning to work on improving key articles and organizing articles for publication.

Wikipedia 1.0 projects

Active projects

Wikipedia 1.0 Projects
Name Summary of overall strategy Coordinator Description of activities
Version 0.5 A test release prior to release of Version 1.0 above. User:Walkerma A test release that will operate in tandem with Version 1.0, and help pave the way. Also uses nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval is only by one person, but they must be a member of the review team.
Release Version Like Version 0.5, but with a slightly different method for reviewing articles and a lot of articles from Work Via Wikiprojects. User:Eyu100 Reviewing is just starting. The name of this version is still unclear, and many pages are not set up. See Release Version's to do list.
Test Version (Test Version) Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo User:BozMo BozMo's group has already released a version with 2000 articles and some level of organized quality control and standards (see 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection).
Work Via WikiProjects (WVWP) Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists User:Walkerma Contact each WikiProject individually. Record article suggestions from the WikiProjects and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. The project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers.
Torrent Project To distribute wikipedia CD by means of file sharing. User:Nominaladversary We strive to make an alternate download of the CDs through the use of the BitTorrent network through the ed2k network.
Dynamic Pocket Cyclopedia Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs. User:xxxxx An evolving list of no more than half of Wikipedia’s most important featured articles, featured lists, and designated good articles.
Core Topics Small foundation based on core topics, build from there. User:Maurreen Improve a set of around 160 articles on top-level subjects, 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.
WikiSort Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki User:The1physicist 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.
Biographies Work on most important bios. User:Maurreen Improve and assess biographical articles, especially the 200 Core Biographies.

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.
  1. Allow editors to propose new groups. Ex: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
  2. Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
  3. 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.
  4. Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
To be coordinated by Sj, Jeff Keller, Gnp.
  • 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.
  • Version 1.0 Nominations -- Will be very roughly similar to WP:FAC. Essentially, have the community decide what to include, on the basis of both importance and quality. Will have a threshold for nomination eligibility. Suspended, see "Status and options" on its talk page for details.

Stages to publication

  • Bring our identified core topic articles (about 160) up to an agreed standard of quality. This work is coordinated through the COTF.
  • Add a further list of "key topics" which includes many more specific subjects (important historical figures, etc.), as discussed here.
  • Integrate suitable featured articles and the key quality articles identified by our contacts with WikiProjects into the core or key lists.
  • Organize the articles in a coherent way, and identify any significant missing topics or articles needing urgent review. Integrate articles with suitable support material (lists, etc.).
  • Identify any possible publication problems, agree on suitable publishers, pricing, media.
  • Issue a final list of articles for publication. Ideally these would be reviewed by subject experts, and validated versions identified before publication.
  • Publish, on DVD, CD, paper or some combination.

Report from Wikimania 2006

The following was copied from the talk page. Maurreen 16:42, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I should summarise some of the information on Wikipedia 1.0 that I picked up while at Wikimania 2006.

I gave a presentation on Friday afternoon that summarised what's going on here at the English 1.0 project – nothing unknown to people at the project. I emphasised Core Topics project, the SOS Children's CD, Work via WikiProjects (incl. the bot assessments), Version 0.5 and the Torrent work. Afterwards there were questions, including one from someone connected with the One Laptop per Child project, though it sounds like their space for articles is very limited.

I was delighted to meet User:Kirill Lokshin from this project as well as others from other language 1.0 projects. I managed to have a working dinner on Friday with User:Polimerek (another chemist!) who not only oversees the Polish FAs, but is organising a DVD release of around 250,000 Polish articles in his spare time! Then on Saturday I had dinner with Emmanuel, who is starting work on a French release. His interest is in the software for presenting the static content. On Sunday all four of us got together for lunch, along with Florence from the Foundation, to share ideas. We plan to set up a page soon off m:Special_projects_subcommittees/Static_content to continue this interwiki collaboration.

Polish DVD

See this report. The approach adopted by Wikimedia Polska was to work with a publisher, Helion SA, from the start. As with the German DVD, they chose to start with all the articles, then remove those with cleanup tags and the like. A script then worked through an editor whitelist and tagged articles by those editors as "good". There remained 130,000 articles, and these were passed over to the publisher, who has hired 13 editors to check 100 articles per day for 100 days (13 x 100 x 100 = 130,000). Those 13 paid checkers are actually supported by around 35 non-paid volunteers, active Wikipedians, who were accepted to join the project on the basis of their "good" contribution to Polish Wikipedia. The checks are of course pretty cursory, but anything dubious is removed. They should have the articles ready by October 2006 for release shortly afterwards.

French Wikipedia 1.0

Work here is just starting, but they are keen on collaborating. Emmanuel may be able to help us with software to make things look nice for the user. His portal strips out the sidebar and other things that are not useful in offline releases.

Responses to our work

The thing that seemed to attract most interest was our scheme of assessments assisted by the bot. Even among the English Wikipedians some were unfamiliar with the work. I chatted with Kurt (Janssen???) from the German Wikipedia, and he seemed interested in the bot, as was Emmanuel, so Oleg may get some requests from other language wikis.

Stable versions

It was announced by Jimmy Wales in his opening plenary speech that the German Wikipedia will be testing Stable Versions of articles very soon. If successful on de then it should come here shortly afterwards. Brion is doing some work on the software to make it work nicely. From what I understand it does this by allowing registered editors with over X edits to tag a version as "stable" (aka "unvandalised") and this version will be the one that comes up from a Google search or wikilink. It isn't a fork, it's just like any other version from the article history. If you click the edit tab, then you get the latest version to edit. As Jimbo pointed out, this may allow more pages to be unprotected, since most users will only see the unvandalised version of the article. This feature is important for this project, as it will make it much easier for us to locate usable versions of articles.

Overall I came away from the conference exhausted but inspired. I was also impressed that 115 countries were represented! If other attendees think I've misunderstood or missed any topics please amend this as needed. Walkerma 07:40, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update. Glad to see the progress. Maurreen 07:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other releases

Webaroo has released WP or parts of it. And One Laptop Per Child plans to include a snapshot.

Participants


Name Special interests WP 1.0 Projects
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User-multi error: "Stirling Newberry" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Fuzheado" is not a valid project or language code (help).
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User-multi error: "Estel" is not a valid project or language code (help).
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User-multi error: "Asbestos" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Taxman" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Ahmednh" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Martin Walker" is not a valid project or language code (help). Assessment & validation, chemistry Core topics, WVWP
User-multi error: "Shanel" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Aranu" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "≈ jossi ≈" is not a valid project or language code (help). Sourcing images, article layout Core topics
User-multi error: "the1physicist" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Fredrik" is not a valid project or language code (help).
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User-multi error: "Dante Alighieri" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Getcrunk" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "MatthewDBA" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Jaranda" is not a valid project or language code (help). work with sports biographies, hip-hop, and City articles, also WP:GA.
User-multi error: "Erielhonan" is not a valid project or language code (help). NPOV/spelling/grammar/style mop-up My topical interests are widely various, so my content edits will probably reflect that.
User-multi error: "Tito" is not a valid project or language code (help). Assessment, cyclones WVWP, V0.5N
User-multi error: "Cormaggio" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "E Pluribus Anthony" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "SushiGeek" is not a valid project or language code (help). Copyediting, Disney-related articles
User-multi error: "Sunray" is not a valid project or language code (help). Culture, Society, Sustainability Core topics
User-multi error: "Wisden17" is not a valid project or language code (help).
User-multi error: "Mirlen" is not a valid project or language code (help). WVWP
User-multi error: "FT2" is not a valid project or language code (help). Spirituality/religion, animal related, psychology/sexology
Specialist enjoyment: intro redrafts and problem article cleanup.
That Guy, From That Show! (talk · contribs)
User-multi error: "Matt Yeager" is not a valid project or language code (help).
MilkMiruku (talk · contribs) Music genres WVWP
User-multi error: "Chuck" is not a valid project or language code (help).
Werdna648 (talk · contribs)
User-multi error: "Shell" is not a valid project or language code (help). Hinduism, Jainism, India, Computers, Proper notation of Sanskrit in 1.0 Hinduism, Jainism, India
User-multi error: "Wizzy" is not a valid project or language code (help). CD and PDA release 0.5 version, WP:AFR
Alex Bakharev (talk · contribs) Russian-related topics, Polymers, Australia Portal:Russia, Portal:Ukraine
Matt Yeager (talk · contribs) Sports, Washington
User-multi error: "Tony" is not a valid project or language code (help). copy-editing; science; classical music; critiqueing of FACs, particularly in relation to Criterion 2a
Kingboyk (talk · contribs) WP:KLF, WP:BEATLES, WP:QUEEN, WP:F1
User-multi error: "NCurse" is not a valid project or language code (help). Science, mostly medicine, biology; Portal:Medicine maintainer; Core topics; scientific topics
Covington (talk · contribs) Classics, Education
IRelayer (talk · contribs) History, Computer Science, Aviation, Geography, Literature
Geo.plrd (talk · contribs) History WP:MILHIST
Rnt20 (talk · contribs) Astronomy, Physics, Italy, Netherlands, proofreading
User-multi error: "Rlk89" is not a valid project or language code (help).
CQ (talk · contribs) Community building: Helping to organise People, Projects, Places and Portals /Work via Wikiprojects
William R. Buckley (talk · contribs) Physical and Life Sciences, and Mathematics, particularly, Automata, and some History.
Nominaladversary (talk · contribs) Volunteering, enabling people to have more options, wikipedia cd Torrent Project
Guettarda (talk · contribs) Biology, Caribbean topics, science and society
KillerChihuahua (talk · contribs)
Ccool2ax (talk · contribs) Macintosh, education...
Jasrocks (talk · contribs)
Badbilltucker (talk · contribs) literary works, history (particularly religious history), and more
Nifboy (talk · contribs) WVWP, 0.5, CVG
Trevor MacInnis (talk · contribs) Aviation Portal:Aviation creator and maintainer,Assessment
P-Chan (talk · contribs) Film
User-multi error: "Dennis Nilsson" is not a valid project or language code (help). Science, History, Arts - almost everything. Work interest: General Development & Design. Tagging articles for WPCD 1.0
User-multi error: "Mal" is not a valid project or language code (help). WP:Belfast, Northern Ireland, WP:BEATLES, WP:F1
Eyu100 (talk · contribs) WP:V0.5
Antorjal (talk · contribs) Molecular biology, biochemistry, biology
Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs)

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