User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk

Angela and I are using this page to brainstorm and work on our BBC talk.

User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk slides

See BBC slides for the final version of the presentation.

1. intro to speakers
2. Angela: common features
   • Recent changes
   • Version control (page history)
   • Monitoring (watchlist, related changes, newpages)
   • Categories, templates
3. Angela: intro to Wikipedia
   • Intro
     • Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
     • 1 million articles total
       • 333,000 English
       • 133,000 German
       • 150,000 images (Is this still correct?)
       • Open content (FDL)
       • Founded January 2001
   • NPOV
   • Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
4. Angela: {not sure the title for this part)
   • Standards (Wikiquette, Neutrality)
   • Selectivity
   • Validation
   • Organization
   • Performance
5. Angela: Common objections
   • "My prose"
   • Problem users (Trolling/Edit wars)
   • Vandalism/spam
   • Under construction
   • Accuracy/Errors
6. Angela: Community features
   • community portal, help desk, goings-on, peer review etc.
7. Jimbo: intro to Wikimedia (Intro, charitable purpose, not just a website, etc.)
8. Jimbo: basic intro to Wikipedia (Goals, mission. Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in the English language, written by volunteers, ... The technology used is called 'wiki')
9. Jimbo: what wikis are/what they can be used for
10. Jimbo:how to make a wiki successful
    • need critical mass of good people, which requires openness
    • need to discourage bad people, which requires closedness
    • successful wiki communities find a balance which must adapt to changing circumstances over time
11. Jimbo: how to scale the community
    • To some extent, communities scale naturally, because they are communities
    • But scaling requires good governance to prevent social breakdown