WikiPedia:Pushing to 1.0

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This purpose of this page is focus efforts on how to achieve the proposed static (paper/CD/DVD) version of Wikipedia, 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
  • There will be some mechanism within the software to give the reader 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, Mandrake require us to remove all fair use images for legal reasons for their intended DVD release of Wikipedia.

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Related pages

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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:

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