Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0
See Wikipedia:Stable versions for a similar project for "stable versions" of Wikipedia articles on Wikipedia itself.
The purpose of this page is to focus effort on how to achieve the proposed static (paper/CD/DVD) versions of Wikipedia and how to produce a validated selection of Wikipedia articles, called Wikipedia 1.0.
Agreed principles of Wikipedia 1.0:
- A 'validated' set of articles (Standard unspecified)
- These articles would be suitable for release in print, CD and DVD.
- The process of validation and making ready for publication will not affect the existing wiki process for creating and amending articles; other than flagging specific versions of articles as being of a certain standard.
Requirements:
- Some method of validating articles
- Some mechanism within the software for easy access to the last stable version.
- Some method of amending articles so they are suitable for publication.
- A set of standards:
- Usable articles - Let's call it the Wikipedia 0.5 standard
- Featured articles - Let's call it the Wikipedia 1.0 standard
- Extension standard required for electronic publication (CD/DVD)
- Extension standard required for a paper publication
Note on publishing
All published articles must be based on either the usable (0.5) or featured (1.0) standard. However, due to the requirements of publishing there will need to be extension standards for electronic and paper publications. For instance, Mandriva requires us to remove all fair-use images for legal reasons for their intended DVD release of Wikipedia.
Related pages
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
- Category:Editorial validation
- Category:Wikipedia featured content
- 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.
- Wikipedia:Good articles
- Wikipedia:Standard articles
- Wikipedia:Stable versions
Historical debate on the mailing lists
There has been a number of interesting debates on the mailing lists about Wikipedia 1.0 in 2003 when the idea was first seriously raised. The points raised are still very relevant: