Dirk Riehle
ABSTRACT
This article presents an interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko. All three are leading Wikipedia practitioners in the English, German, and Japanese Wikipedias and related projects. The interview focuses on how Wikipedia works and why these three practitioners believe it will keep working. The interview was conducted via email in preparation of WikiSym 2006, the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis, with the goal of furthering Wikipedia research [1]. Interviewer was Dirk Riehle, the chair of WikiSym 2006. An online version of the article provides simplified access to URLs [2].
- http://www.wikisym.orgGoogle Scholar
- http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.htmlGoogle Scholar
- The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is the U.S. non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia and its related projects.Google Scholar
- For an official WMF definition of "mediation committee", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Mediation_CommitteeGoogle Scholar
- NPOV stands for "Neutral Point of View" and is an official Wikipedia policy, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOVGoogle Scholar
- GFDL stands for "GNU Free Documentation License" and is the license under which Wikipedia contents is made available.Google Scholar
- Wikiquette stands for wiki usage behavior etiquette, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquette.Google Scholar
- Elisabeth Bauer. A comparison of the English and the German Wikipedias, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elian/comparisonGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Welcoming_committeeGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: Wikipedian_organizationsGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Arbitration_CommitteeGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_StyleGoogle Scholar
- For step 1 in the German peer review process, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ReviewGoogle Scholar
- For step 2 in the German peer review process, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KLAGoogle Scholar
- For step 3 in the German peer review process, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:KEAGoogle Scholar
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BenutzerGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UserGoogle Scholar
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Power_structureGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Requests_for_adminshipGoogle Scholar
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissionsGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Guide_to_requests_for_adminshipGoogle Scholar
- The wiki engine running Wikipedia, MediaWiki, expands '~~~~' to the user"s name and current date to sign the edit.Google Scholar
- For example, for June 15, the log is at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia: Articles_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_15Google Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_deletionGoogle Scholar
- For an overview of the processes in the German Wikipedia see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Ausstellung/KontrolleGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_create_policyGoogle Scholar
- For conflict resolution, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Resolving_disputesGoogle Scholar
- For conflict resolution, also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_commentGoogle Scholar
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: VermittlungsausschussGoogle Scholar
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BenutzersperrungGoogle Scholar
- http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88:%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%A7%E8%99%90%E6%AE%BA%E8%AB%96%E4%BA%89Google Scholar
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_validationGoogle Scholar
- The case, which shortly disabled the German Wikipedia domain wikipedia.de, was eventually dismissed.Google Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Be_bold_in_updating_pagesGoogle Scholar
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rulesGoogle Scholar
- http://www.openusability.orgGoogle Scholar
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_NetworkGoogle Scholar
- http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-lGoogle Scholar
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- How and why Wikipedia works: an interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko
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