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Su-Laine Yeo Vancouver User Experience Group November, 2007 Dynamics of Wikipedia This presentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Agenda ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Vision ,[object Object],“ Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.” – Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales

The global project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_family

Size of the English Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Size_of_English_Wikipedia_in_August_2007.svg

Who’s who ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Wikimedia Foundation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Wikipedia statistics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/technology/29wikipedia.html?ex=1327726800&en=92bbe5fe41874778&ei=5090

Key policies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Most viewed articles Source: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts for Sept 07

Most viewed articles (cont’d)

Unusual articles ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Contributing: Part I ,[object Object],[object Object]

Contributing: Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Get an account ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Wikiscanner http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Addressing vandalism ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Vandalism warnings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:208.67.142.93

Administrators ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Addressing spam ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Other obviously-bad edits ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Conflict and Culture ,[object Object],[object Object]

Conflict ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Dispute resolution ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Content policies and guidelines ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Conduct policies and guidelines ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Corporate advocacy and self-promotion ,[object Object],[object Object]

Dispute resolution principles ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deleted_articles_with_freaky_titles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pooky_the_Teddy_Bear

Controversy is often good ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Problem behaviour ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Problem behaviour (cont’d) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ The takeaway message I'm getting here is ‘only an admin with a hole in his head willingly gets involved in Israel-Palestine articles.’ ” - a Wikipedia administrator

Controversial Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Biographies of Living Persons rules ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IA for two million articles ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

IA for two million articles (cont’d) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Categories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Summary: Conflict and culture ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Contributing: Part II ,[object Object],[object Object]

Contribute by… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

"We can no longer feel satisfied and happy when we see these (article) numbers going up.... We should continue to turn our attention away from growth and towards quality.“ - Jimbo Wales

Why contribute? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Summary ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The radical project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Be_bold.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Be_bold.png

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