Astronomy Project For Kid

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.

See these more detailed related articles:

  • Wikipedia 1.0 FAQs
  • Wikipedia 1.0 Release Version Criteria

How you can help

You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on the talk page.

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 .

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

  • Core Topics, please help improve important articles.
  • Torrent Project
  • m:Static version tools on meta - we need people to work on scripts, bots, etc.

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

  • Work via WikiProjects
  • Bot-assisted assessment work


Wikipedia Version 0.5

Status

Most recent work has focused on organizing articles for Version 0.7, which we hope to release in 2009. We are now mainly using bot-assisted selection based on assessment by WikiProjects.

  • Version 0.5 was released on April 6, 2007. It includes 1,964 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.
  • The team is also assisting with the "Selection" project, which released its "2008 Wikipedia CD Selection" during autumn 2008.
  • As of March 2010, over 2,200,000 articles have been assessed for the project by over 1000 WikiProjects. This work 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.

Wikipedia 1.0 projects

Active projects

Past releases

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.
  1. Allow editors to propose new groups. Ex: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
  2. Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
  3. 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.
  4. Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
  • 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.
  • Biographies — improve and assess biographical articles, especially the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography.
  • 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. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
  • Article assessment This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).

Stages to publication

On the English Wikipedia, we use the Selection Bot as part of the selection process, using the WikiProject assessments to indicate the state of each article. The online version is held on the Kiwix server while undergoing cleanup. The offline format we use is ZIM format, and the conversion is performed by User:Kelson. Currently Linterweb, a French software company, is publishing our material.

Statistics

Participants



Participants, add {{User WP1.0}} to your userpage to add this userbox identifying you as a part of this project:


Related pages

General

  • Jimbo's proposal, Chicago Meetup - Jimbo's Oct 2004 ideas on how to get to 1.0.
  • Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0 Early discussion page for brainstorming ideas, before this team was created.
  • meta:Wikipedia_1.0

Assessment and validation

  • Wikipedia:Article assessment
  • meta:Article validation and Wikipedia:Pushing to validation - argue the benefit of article validation and possible implementations
  • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (similar to the older "stable versions")
    • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Sighted versions
    • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Quality versions
    • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/reliable revisions
    • Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Checkpoints and grading
    • Demo version of flagged revisions
  • Wikipedia:Footnotes
  • Wikipedia:Peer review
  • Wikipedia:Request for comment
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check

Wikireaders

  • 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.
  • The Book Tool , and Wiki to print, a collaboration between the Foundation and OSI/PediaPress.

Article selections

  • Wikipedia:Vital articles
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - Filling the gaps.
  • Wikipedia:Good articles
  • Featured Articles
    • Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
    • Wikipedia:Featured articles
    • Wikipedia:What is a featured article
    • Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates
  • Wikipedia:Stable versions

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