Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

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TORRENT (Talk)

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WORK VIA WIKI PROJECTS (talk) Full list Arts Econ/Business Hobbies Humanities Science Technology Places


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We are publishing sets of articles in print, CD, DVD, or some combination.

1 How you can help
2 General background
3 Status
4 Wikipedia 1.0 projects
- 4.1 Active projects
- 4.2 Proposed or inactive projects
5 Stages to publication
6 Participants
7 Related pages

[edit] How you can help

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

Choose articles

Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations – sign up as a reviewer and review articles to be included in the next release. Review groups of related articles at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations/Set Nominations
"Selection" project – Tag articles to be included.

Improve important articles

Core Topics, please help improve important articles.

Technical work

Torrent Project
m:Static version tools on meta - we need people to work on scripts, bots, etc.

Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists, often in collaboration with WP:COUNCIL.

[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.

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 chose to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We have produced a small test version (Version 0.5), with the goal of releasing larger 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.

[edit] Status

Most recent work has focused on organizing articles for publication of Version 0.5. We are now beginning to switch from manual review/selection by team members, towards bot-assisted selection based on assessment by WikiProjects.

As of March 2007, Version 0.5 underwent beta testing, and should be published soon. It includes around 2000 articles, as well as a GPL offline reader written by a French company (Linterweb). We have been collaborating with Wikipedia 1.0 Projects from other languages, and User:Kelson (fr) has written most of our scripts.
Nominations are now open for the next release version, with articles being assessed by quality and importance. This release, called Version 0.7, will also include some articles chosen by a bot, after testing and development.
The team is also assisting with the "Selection" project, which aims to release its "2007 Wikipedia CD Selection" during early 2007.
As of February 2007, over 250,000 articles have been assessed for the project by over 300 WikiProjects. This work continues rapid growth, and 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.
The core topics project is mainly working to through its collaboration to improve core articles (one to FA status) – this work continues.

For a summary from Wikimania 2006 (August), which includes information on other languages 1.0 projects, see /Wikimania 2006.

[edit] Wikipedia 1.0 projects

[edit] 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 for Version 0.7, and some pages are not set up. See Release Version's to do list.
Wikipedia:2006 Wikipedia CD Selection ( previously called "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). The 2007 selection is currently under way.
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	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, 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.
Biographies	Work on the most important biographies.	User:Maurreen (currently on Wikibreak)	Improve and assess biographical articles , especially the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography.

[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.

To be coordinated by Sj, Jeff Keller, Gnp.

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.

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.

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.

Article assessment This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).

[edit] 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.

[edit] Participants

Name	Special interests	WP 1.0 Projects
Information Center (talk • contribs)
Bananagirl (talk • contribs)
Randy Johnston (talk • contribs)
Maurreen (talk • contribs)
Lyellin (talk • contribs)
Jmabel (talk • contribs)
Andrevan (talk • contribs)
Stirling Newberry (talk • contribs)
Fuzheado (talk • contribs)
David Gerard (talk • contribs)
Hawstom (talk • contribs)
Jdforrester (talk • contribs)
Ed Poor (talk • contribs)
Ugen64 (talk • contribs)
Estel (talk • contribs)
Blyth McManus (talk • contribs)
Radman1 (talk • contribs)
Mark Dingemanse (talk • contribs)
Sj (talk • contribs)
Polyparadigm (talk • contribs)
Poli (talk • contribs)
Kat (talk • contribs)
Asbestos (talk • contribs)
Taxman (talk • contribs)
Ahmednh (talk • contribs)
Walkerma (talk • contribs)	Assessment & validation, chemistry	Core topics, WVWP, V0.5 onwards
Shanel (talk • contribs)
Aranu (talk • contribs)
Jossi (talk • contribs)	Sourcing images, article layout	Core topics
The1physicist (talk • contribs)
Fredrik (talk • contribs)
Tastemyhouse (talk • contribs)
Deliri (talk • contribs)
Mahanga (talk • contribs)
AtionSong (talk • contribs)
Amigaguy (talk • contribs)
Deckiller (talk • contribs)
Dante Alighieri (talk • contribs)
Getcrunk (talk • contribs)
MatthewDBA (talk • contribs)
Jaranda (talk • contribs)	work with sports biographies, hip-hop, and City articles, also WP:GA.
Erielhonan (talk • contribs)	NPOV/spelling/grammar/style mop-up	My topical interests are widely various, so my content edits will probably reflect that.
Titoxd (talk • contribs)	Assessment, cyclones	WVWP, V0.5N
Cormaggio (talk • contribs)
E Pluribus Anthony (talk • contribs)
SushiGeek (talk • contribs)	Copyediting, Disney-related articles
Sunray (talk • contribs)	Culture, Society, Sustainability	Core topics
Wisden17 (talk • contribs)
Mirlen (talk • contribs)		WVWP
FT2 (talk • contribs)	Spirituality/religion, animal related, psychology/sexology Specialist enjoyment: intro redrafts and problem article cleanup.
That Guy, From That Show! (talk • contribs)
Matt Yeager (talk • contribs)
MilkMiruku (talk • contribs)	Music genres	WVWP
Chcknwnm (talk • contribs)
Werdna648 (talk • contribs)
DotShell (talk • contribs)	Hinduism, Jainism, India, Computers, Proper notation of Sanskrit in 1.0	Hinduism, Jainism, India
Wikiwizzy (talk • contribs)	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
Tony1 (talk • contribs)	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
NCurse (talk • contribs)	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
Rlk89 (talk • contribs)
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
dna-webmaster (talk • contribs)	Science, History, Arts - almost everything. Work interest: General Development & Design.	Tagging articles for WPCD 1.0
Setanta747 (talk • contribs)		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)
Devious Viper (talk • contribs)
Reswik (talk • contribs)	Sociology, Social sciences, Humanities	Core Topics, categorization, article eval., release design & publishing
Nichalp (talk • contribs)	India, cricket, layout, Geography, History
A.JH.Ou (talk • contribs)
Warlordjohncarter (talk • contribs)	assessment, religious biography, general religion/philosophy
Auroranorth (talk • contribs)	Assessment, Western Australia-related articles
SMcCandlish (talk • contribs)	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)	Natural sciences, esp. historical science.	WVWP
Funpika (talk • contribs)	Assesment, Technology articles and videogame articles.	V 0.7
RyguyMN (talk • contribs)	Sports, science, technology, geography
Dev920 (talk • contribs)	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 • block log)	I will become an admin soon	World's ethnic groups, World's Military, Peru related stuff