User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk
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Angela and I are using this page to brainstorm and work on our BBC talk.
User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk slides
See BBC slides for the final version of the presentation.
- intro to speakers
- Angela: common features
- Recent changes
- Version control (page history)
- Monitoring (watchlist, related changes, newpages)
- Categories, templates
- Angela: intro to Wikipedia
- Intro
- Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
- 1 million articles total
- 333,000 English
- 133,000 German
- 150,000 images (Is this still correct?)
- Open content (FDL)
- Founded January 2001
- NPOV
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
- Intro
- Angela: {not sure the title for this part)
- Standards (Wikiquette, Neutrality)
- Selectivity
- Validation
- Organization
- Performance
- Angela: Common objections
- "My prose"
- Problem users (Trolling/Edit wars)
- Vandalism/spam
- Under construction
- Accuracy/Errors
- Angela: Community features
- Jimbo: intro to Wikimedia (Intro, charitable purpose, not just a website, etc.)
- Jimbo: basic intro to Wikipedia (Goals, mission. Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the English language, written by volunteers, ... The technology used is called 'wiki')
- Jimbo: what wikis are/what they can be used for
- Jimbo:how to make a wiki successful
- need critical mass of good people, which requires openness
- need to discourage bad people, which requires closedness
- successful wiki communities find a balance which must adapt to changing circumstances over time
- Jimbo: how to scale the community
- To some extent, communities scale naturally, because they are communities
- But scaling requires good governance to prevent social breakdown
