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Ethics, philosophy, objectivity, religion [edit]
- Simple View of Ethics and Morals
- Ethics or Morals (Bruce Hamilton)
- Ethics vs. Morals -- some rather old discussion about the difference between ethics and morals
- A pome of sorts in narrative style... (Bruce Hamilton)
- Folklore, myth and religion (various)
- Faith vs science with regard to the Wikipedia
The world and where it's going [edit]
- The best president to have a beer with (various Wikipedians)
- Internet Authority Disease by Sammy snake
Content of Wikipedia [edit]
- Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor (BryceHarrington)
- Please help build 911 Attack memorial
- Project Sourceberg (what to do about primary sources)
Form of Wikipedia [edit]
- The elements of an encyclopedia project (Larry Sanger and whoever else joins in)
- Breadth and depth (Larry Sanger and others)
- Modular content creation (TimShell and others)
- Wiki is not paper (a discussion about ways to improve upon the traditional encyclopedia concept)
- Should Wikipedia Use Profanity? (Stephen Gilbert and others)
- External links
- Kill the Stub Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Improving Portal Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Get rid of subpages entirely (Larry Sanger)
Wikipedia and where it's going [edit]
- Wikipedia Anti-rules (Anonymous and others)
- Making Wikipedia profitable (Neeklamy and others)
- The future of Wikipedia (Kpjas and others)
- How to Destroy Wikipedia (The Cunctator) - an open challenge
- How to Build Wikipedia (The Cunctator) - an open exhortation
- A Better Wikipedia
- The Wikipedia Community
- Responding to the Critics (Stephen Gilbert)
- Larrys Big Reply (originally on Creationism/Talk)
- (AKA "The Ten Point Plan", or, "We should not impose our values on other thinking people.")
- SJKs Wikipedia-Specific License proposal
Larry' section [edit]
- Larry Sanger/Columns (Larry Sanger and people who respond to him)
- Larry's Text
Interlingual issues [edit]
- Thoughts on language integration - Proposal on language integration: merge of database
- Two Russian WPs
Releases of Wikipedia [edit]
- Paper Wikipedia - and underlying Wikipedia DTD
- Wikipedia on CD/DVD
Social [edit]
- wikipedia meetup (12 May!)
- Talk_media There are 2 main talk media: Talk: pages, and mailing lists. This article addresses relevant topics to this such as: Language issues, providing structure to increase productivity, possibly combining all talk media into one..
Technical [edit]
- Development policy -- General policy for Wikipedia script development
- Deletion management redesign
- User details special page: Making it easier to create sysops
- Cache strategy: on speeding up the server
- Main causes of lag: To deal with a problem, we need to know its cause!
- Wikipedia client - offline reader and editor (proposed) important for increasing Wikipedia presence in countries with low broadband penetration and high dial-up internet costs
- Caractères spéciaux - special characters to copy & paste on each page?
- Development tasks
Misc [edit]
- Ideas on how to write about--and how not to write about--film (KQ and whoever cares to respond)
Wikimedia [edit]
- Wikimedia - extending the Wikipedia family
Wiki textbooks [edit]
Editing, counting, naming [edit]
- table syntax and simplified tables (proposed) - but see also Image pages for a temporary solution
- Article count reform: Let's build a better counter for all Wikipedias.
- Math Markup -- inline TeX support for math
- Credibility
- Dynamic dates
Core issues: etiquette, consensus, permission, vandals, ethics, morals [edit]
- Etiquette
- Wikipedia vandalism
- Uploads being abused
- Consensus and implications of its definition for all of the core issues
- Simple View of Ethics and Morals
- Be bold in updating pages
- Should talk pages be used for debating?
- Should Wikipedia Use Profanity? (Stephen Gilbert and others)
- Freedom of choosing a username debate
- Standard email texts for asking permission to use texts or images
Usability and user interface [edit]
- What is a user?
- Cross language interface issues
- Standards issues
- Regarding URLs and change of URL for English pedia
- What to do with www.wikipedia.org
- The provisional portal of Wikipedia
- SVG image support
- Protected pages considered harmful
- Empty page page
- Recent Changes redesign
- Browser issues with Wikipedia
English usage [edit]
- Vocabulary - an educational and an ethical issue
- Defining vocabulary - the core glossary, should coordinate with [1]
- Use of the present tense, and overuse of the past tense
- Wikipedia is not Wiki - a little bit of wiki nomenclature
Copyright [edit]
- Copyright - what is 'fair use' in quotation and what violates laws? whose law applies? what problems are we actually trying to solve here?
- Avoid Copyright Paranoia!
- Wikipedia and copyright issues
- Copyright bot
- Wikipedia Designated Agent
Interlingual coordination [edit]
- International promotion material -- new!
- Countries of the world tables
- Wikipedia Machine Translation Project
- International wikipedia question
- Final international solution
- Statistics for International Wikipedias
- There is also an English Wikipedia available -- International help necessary
- Future of international Wikipedias as part of the main community
- Open letter to the Enciclopedia Libre group
- Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities
- Wikipedias and cross-fertilisation
- Supporting an English Dialect - Cockney Rhyming Slang Wikipedia
- Interlingual coordination (outdated)
Characters and contributors [edit]
- Various Wikipedian essays
- How I became a Wikipedian
- Wikipedians categorized by sub-cultural affiliation
Neutral point of view [edit]
- Neutral point of view--draft
- Proposed revision of the NPOV policy
- NPOV as description not prescription
- Systemic Bias of Wikipedia
- Early Muslim view of history - "all records are liable to error..."
- Natural point of view
- NPOV is an ideal
- Consensus editing
Wikipedia building [edit]
Talks [edit]
- Disarmament crisis of March 2003
- A day in the life of an ordinary Canadian (w:en:User:DW)
- User:Rlee0001/Markup vs MetaForming|Markup vs MetaForming
- Autograph collecting do's and dont's
- Latino Unity
- 24's contributions
Form of Wikipedia [edit]
- Consolidating vs breaking up
- The elements of an encyclopedia project (Larry Sanger and whoever else joins in)
- Breadth and depth (Larry Sanger and others)
- Modular content creation (TimShell and others)
- Wiki is not paper (a discussion about ways to improve upon the traditional encyclopedia concept)
- Kill the Stub Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Improving Portal Pages (BryceHarrington)
- Get rid of subpages entirely (Larry Sanger)
- Format issues under the PHP script
- Appropriate content and plump waterfowl
- Send this article to a friend
- Listing deleted titles
- Use pinyin not Wade-Giles
- Technical categories in Wikipedia
- Species names (to be specific) (John Lynch)
- video policy
People, places, times [edit]
- How to write non-American names - see also person DTD
- Dates in Wikipedia - see also spacetime DTD
- U.S. vs. US - see also ecoregion DTD
Wikipedia history [edit]
- Historical Wikipedia pages -- a museum of old pages
- History of Wikipedia -- Wikipedia and where it's been
- Wikipedia commentary
Wikipedia and where it should go [edit]
- best cases which wikipedia could realize
- The future of Wikipedia (Kpjas and others)
- Visions of what wikipedia could ultimately become (fantasies)
- Wikipedia4 timeline (proposed, very tenative)
- A Better Wikipedia
- WikipediAhimsa
- Wikipedia cloning project
- Discussion on business models and organizational charters applicable to large free wikis
- GFDL Workshop
- Wikipedia Client
- Wikipedia T-shirts (now available in Esperanto!)
- Proposal for an Encyclopedian Recycling Endeavor (BryceHarrington)
- The ideal Wikipedia board
Where it actually is [edit]
- Making Wikipedia profitable (Neeklamy and others)
- The Wikipedia Community - and your own ideas of community
- The importance of being Wikipedia (help spread the word!)
What might damage it (hazards, things that must be done right) [edit]
- How to Destroy Wikipedia (The Cunctator) - an open challenge
- Threats that wikipedia might face, in your most paranoid nightmare
- Worst cases of what could happen to wikipedia (realistically)
- Responding to the Critics (Stephen Gilbert)
- Wikipedia drop-outs
- Discussion about FOLDOC fork
- Wikipedia's first press release--draft for comment
- Advertising on Wikipedia (Jimbo Wales, with comments by others)
- Integrating Two Integrative Sites (a proposal from Kris Roose of the Integration Website
- Wikipedia Governance - Jimbo Wales (Response to 24's governance)
Wikimedia hackfest [edit]
- How to become a MediaWiki hacker
- Running MediaWiki on Windows
- Database queries on MediaWiki
- Text in MediaWiki
- MediaWiki math markup
- RDF spool
- Wiki markup tables -- proposals
- Wiki markup syntax - see Wikipedia DTD
- en:Wikipedia:Sites using MediaWiki
Wikipedia humor [edit]
- Wikipedia Anti-rules (by some very productive Wikipedians)
- Wikipedia haiku
Other texts about Wikipedia [edit]
- Wikipedia -- An Online Collaborative Encyclopedia -- an article for the w:The Canadian Writer's Guide (13th Edition), by Mark Jeays
- Wikipedia (Everything2) -- an en:Everything2 node by Axel Boldt
