 | As of July 2019, version 1.0 is on hold,[1] although theWP:Content assessment procedures are still in use.This page is the subject of a current discussion whether it should be marked ashistorical. Please feel free to join in at§ Current status of Wikipedia 1.0 |
 | This page in a nutshell: We are publishing selections of Wikipedia articles for offline use inKiwix releases, in print, or for distribution on flash drives/memory cards. Most of the work is organized off wiki. |
This is theVersion 1.0 Editorial Team page. This is the home page on the English Wikipedia for a broad group of people who work to produceoffline versions of content. This content is used in places where internet access is limited. It includes (but is not limited to) English Wikipedia articles. The Wikipedia content assessment scheme was originally developed here to allow us to put together article selections, and it is still managed by members of this group through the WP 1.0 bot, although the main users of that scheme are Wikipedia editors and WikiProjects.
In late 2003, Wikipedia co-founderJimmy Wales hadproposed 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 and 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. We aim to produce collections that can be used in places where the internet coverage is expensive or non-existent. Our early collections were distributed via DVD; now these are shared via download, then distributed on hardware such as aRaspberry Pi. Originally, only a fixed selection was available, but there is now much flexibility in how selections can be made. This project is now mainly one point in a network of groups who collect and distributeopen educational resources from the Internet in an offline form.
Our approach diverged from earlier Wikipedia collections developed by theGerman offline project and byWikimedia Polska, both of which involved a large group of volunteers checking over a snapshot at the time of release. On the English Wikipedia, we elected to set up an assessment scheme in advance, with the idea that collections could be assembled using quality & importance information compiled by WikiProjects. The assessment scheme originated as a manual tool for WikiProjects to organise articles in their subject area, and (once automated) this is the main application for article assessment.
See these more detailed related articles:
You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on thetalk page. A significant part of our work centers around maintaining theassessment scheme, which is now used onmore than seven million articles byover 1000 active WikiProjects on the English Wikipedia. It is also being used on other language projects. Generally work on this team is sporadic – periods of hectic activity followed by long periods of waiting! Often work is long and tedious – checking through a list of 22,000 instances of profanities one by one, organizing 10,000 keywords taken from category names, or dealing with technical bugs when the assessment bot fails for no apparent reason. However,it is all worth it in the end.
We work extensively with Kiwix, who maintainthis Github page, and they havethis list of WP1 issues they are working on. If you have tech skills, and know how to solve some of these problems, please contact the Kiwix people via Github or via the Kiwix main site. One of the most important goals for us at WP1.0 is the project tocreate a new list builder module, coordinated byUser:Audiodude
Although we have much of the requisite system automated, there are still some outstanding tasks:
The main goal here is to help with distribution, especially in remote or undeveloped areas without Internet access. The main target audiences are:
Please let us know on the Talk page if you can help with any of these, and be sure to ping the user in your message to make sure they see your request.
At present, the main activities are:
To select articles, we are mainly using a bot-assisted selection process based on assessment by individual WikiProjects, where articles are selected automatically based onquality andimportance project rankings.
Based on discussions (at the 2017 Potsdam hackathon and since), we plan to reactivateRevID selection. Previously code based onWikiTrust was used in Version 0.8, and this appeared to produce a largely vandalism-free collection of articles. This worked by scoring each RevID based on the edits remaining in it, and choosing the most "trustworthy" recent RevID based on the WikiTrust algorithm.
If you would like to start a new project, please discuss it on the talk page first before adding it here.
| Wikipedia 1.0 Projects | |||||||
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| Name | Summary of overall strategy | Coordinator | Description of activities | ||||
| Work via WikiProjects (WVWP) | Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists on wiki | User:Walkerma | Organise and facilitate compilation ofarticle lists from the WikiProjects and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. Locate important topics that are currently not being managed by projects. In conjunction withWP:COUNCIL, the project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers. | ||||
| m:WikiMed encyclopedia | Create a high-quality medical encyclopedia as a free, offline resource for use in places where resources and internet are limited. | Doc James on MDWiki | Our goal is to make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date education resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice, online and off. While we are working on resources for all people, we are particularly interested in developing material useful for those in low and middle income countries. | ||||
| Past Wikipedia 1.0 Projects | |||||||
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| Name | Summary of overall strategy | Month of release | Description of activities | Website | Next release | ||
| Version 0.5 | A test release prior to release ofVersion 1.0 above. | April 2007 | A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used manual nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval was by only one person, from thereview team. | Okawix site now inactive | Version 0.7 | ||
| Version 0.7 | A test release of automated article selections, prior to release ofVersion 1.0 above. | Early 2010 | A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. UsedSelectionBot to make an article selection based on importance and quality. Vandalism prevention used a script, with manual checks, which delayed the release significantly.[1] | ZIM download | Version 0.8 | ||
| Version 0.8 | A test release of automated article selections, prior to release ofVersion 1.0 above. | March 2011 | A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Version 0.8 used bot-assisted article selection, with manual adjustments based on feedback from WikiProjects. Used as a test of the WikiTrust revisionID selection code - this worked well. | Wikipedia:Version 0.8/downloads. | Version 0.9 | ||
| 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection (previously called "Test Version") | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo | April 2006 | 2000 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (seeWikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | No longer available - see 2008/9 release below | 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) | ||
| 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated byBozMo | May 2007 | 4655 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (seeWikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | No longer available - see 2008/9 release below | 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) | ||
| 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection | Work with release version done off site that was coordinated byBozMo | October 2008 | 5502 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (seeWikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). | http://schools-wikipedia.org | Not yet known | ||
| Inactive Wikipedia 1.0 Projects | |||||||
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| Name | Summary of overall strategy | Coordinator | Description of activities | ||||
| School selection | Put together selections of 1–10 GB sizes for use in high schools and elementary schools | User:Walkerma and others | Uses new code that starts with a seed and works out, guided by the WP 1 selection ranking to guide it | ||||
The process of generating an offline version of a sub-selection of Wikipedia article is multistage. It needs many dedicated and singled-purposed operations. The following chart show how the WP1 project envisioned things in 2010.
Even if this chart is still, to a large extend, valid; we practice and envision things slightly differently nowadays. One of the most important paradigm change we had to make is to remove as much as possible human based manual activity because the amount of work is simply too high to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time. We tend now to automate as much as possible the whole process. As a consequence the project is now predominantly focused on technology.
The first software created to support the WP1 project has been theUser:WP_1.0_bot. First written in Perl byUser:CBM and then slighly modified and maintained by a few other volunteers. In 2020 the bot has beentotally rewritten in Python following modern development standards (API, automated tests, etc.) byUser:Audiodude. The code base is available en developedon Github.
The WP1bot had and still have three traditional purposes:
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TheWP 1.0 bot tracks assessment data (article quality and importance data for individual WikiProjects) assigned via Talk page banners. If you would like to add a new WikiProject to the bot's list, please read the instructions atWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot.
The global summary table below is computed by taking the highest quality and importance rating for each assessed article in the main namespace.
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