Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0
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See Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Nominations and Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Test Version for active or completed release version projects.
For general information on English snapshots of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Snapshots
The purpose of this page is to focus effort on how to achieve the proposed static (paper/CD/DVD) versions of Wikipedia and how to produce a validated selection of Wikipedia articles, called Wikipedia 1.0. All activities are coordinated through the editorial team, which is open to all Wikipedia editors. Items shown in italics are currently active areas for the project.
Agreed principles of Wikipedia 1.0:
- A 'validated' set of articles (Standard unspecified)
- These articles would be suitable for release in print, CD and DVD.
- The process of validation and making ready for publication will not affect the existing wiki process for creating and amending articles; other than flagging specific versions of articles as being of a certain standard.
Requirements:
- Some method of validating articles and assessing these using these criteria or something similar. (NOW DONE)
- Validation and assessment of suitable articles.
- Discussion and agreement on the scope for DVD and paper versions.
- Some mechanism within the software for easy access to the last stable version. (See Wikipedia:Stable versions).
- Some method of amending articles so they are suitable for publication.
- A set of standards: see: Grading scheme
- B-Class: Usable articles (previously called the Wikipedia 0.5 standard)
- FA and A-Class: Featured articles, or approaching FA (previously called the Wikipedia 1.0 standard)
- Extension standard required for electronic publication (CD/DVD)
- Extension standard required for a paper publication
Note on publishing
All published articles must be based on either the usable (B-Class) or featured (FA/A-Class) standard. However, due to the requirements of publishing there will need to be extension standards for electronic and paper publications. For instance, Mandriva requires us to remove all fair-use images for legal reasons for their intended DVD release of Wikipedia.
[edit] Related pages
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
- Category:Wikipedia editorial validation
- Category:Wikipedia featured content
- 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.
- Wikipedia:Good articles
- Wikipedia:Stable versions
- 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection - these articles being tagged with with {{WPCD}} on their Talk pages.
[edit] Historical debate on the mailing lists
There has been a number of interesting debates on the mailing lists about Wikipedia 1.0 in 2003 when the idea was first seriously raised. The points raised are still very relevant:
