Saturday, May 26, 2007

Wikipedia 1.0

Wikipedia 1.0 is a future offline version of Wikipedia. I am a reviewer. Wikipedia 0.5 was released in April. People are now working on the release version, or V0.7, but work is stagnating. I plan to start working on it again today.

I started working on the project in July or August (August, I think). I joined the V0.5 project. I worked on the project a lot and got a barnstar for it. I jumpstarted the release version but became inactive. I continued to check often until February or March. I went back in March or April to ask about MartinbotII, an automated bot that would check articles for the release version. It wasn't set up yet. Recently, I have been more active in the project.

UPDATE: I worked on the project again today. I reviewed many articles for the release version. I was bored and the computer was open, so I decided to work on the project again. I reviewed for a bit more than half an hour, playing an online game.

There are some standards for reviewing. If an article is very important, is can be passed even if its quality is mediocre. If an article is relatively unimportant, it does not get passed regardless of its quality. Articles that are not important enough (that do not fall within the scope of the release version) are "held", while articles that fail because of quality are "failed".

Quality is graded on a scale from Stub to FA. A stub is a very short article. The next grade up, Start, is a very short article without enough information. A B-Class article has a reasonable amount of information or has enough information and some problems. A GA (good article) is an article that is listed at WP:GA. Good articles "should be well written, stable, accurate, [and] referenced, have a neutral point of view, and show relevant illustrations with an appropriate copyright." A-Class articles are more comprehensive, and FA-Class articles are even more comprehensive and are promoted to featured status through a special process.

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