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Help write The Next Chapter of Wikipedia
What challenges will Wikipedia and the community face? Where will it be in 1, 5 or 10 years? Guidelines will be continually posted in WikipediaStory:Community_Portal, but the goal is to keep rules to a minimum. Unlike Wikipedia's NPOV policy, we propose as an editorial policy to have viewpoints that adhere to CRAFT - Coherent, Reasoned, Accurate, Fair and Transparent.
I look forward to an exciting experiment. (See Background for more information) -- or feel free to contact Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado on Wikipedia or by email [1])
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EDIT ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE. This is probably going to be much more like a pure "wiki" with discussion/refactoring than Wikipedia.
Brainstorming
- Quality
- Will there ever be a Version 1.0?
- Will 1.0 be released on paper?
- What is the status of stable versions?
- Earlier implementations, eg at Citizendium
- How will the project address perceptions/realities about "quality"?
- Will there ever be a Version 1.0?
- Institutional
- What is the future of the Wikimedia Foundation?
- Challenges
- Legal issues in the future. Is the big legal case looming out there?
- Will the community survive long term?
- For most non-profits, surviving its charismatic leader is a key moment: who will succeed Jimmy Wales, and what effect will that succession have for the community?
- Is the foundation healthy in terms of governance and financial sustainability?
- Fun questions
- How many articles in 2010?
- When will Chinese Wikipedia be unblocked?
- Wikipedia is around #10 on the Alexa rankings... can it go higher? Is Wikipedia growth destined to hit the top of S-curve?
- Rivals, spinoffs, parallel projects
- Citizendium
- Danny Hillis Freebase
- Wikia
- Scholarpedia
- Mahalo
- I split this out into different pages for discussion. I'm excited to see what people contribute!--BradPatrick 14:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Licensing, Copyright and Attribution
- What license should be used for the content to encourage participation and benefit the community?
- How should authorship be attributed? Should it be?
- If we're going to have many many authors, it seems like it would use a fair bit of paper in the final version. If people wish for inclusion in the credits, possibly a hyperlink could be included in the book to the userlist or similar. -- Tawker 16:56, 14 March 2007 (PDT)
- The upside is that it would provide some motivation for folks to be more involved (at the risk of hogging the spotlight) but it may be the fairest thing. Definitely would like an online list of contributions to always be available. -- Fuzheado 18:05, 14 March 2007 (PDT)
- If we're going to have many many authors, it seems like it would use a fair bit of paper in the final version. If people wish for inclusion in the credits, possibly a hyperlink could be included in the book to the userlist or similar. -- Tawker 16:56, 14 March 2007 (PDT)
Participation and Policy
- Is a private wiki the best idea? Leaving the wiki open to the unwashed masses will most certainly fail in the spectacular ways of Wikitorials, and other wiki experiments without the dedicated ranks of patrollers.
- Who should be invited to the wiki?
- How should final editing be handled?
- What role should NPOV play? Certainly people should be able to voice their opinions.
- What forms of participation? Not everyone has time to wiki-edit, so perhaps have a way for folks to leave "position papers" or essays with ideas, and leave to other to be inspired or incorporate those viewpoints.
- Updates -- Mitch Kapor suggested sending out weekly email updates to keep folks engaged in the process, as to what major changes have been made. I think it's a good idea, as not everyone is going to be checking Recent Changes that often. -- Fuzheado 09:32, 19 March 2007 (PDT)
- Like any writing 'assignment', what is the deadline? --BradPatrick 14:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
