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
 * 3) *Recent changes
 * 4) *Version control (page history)
 * 5) *Monitoring (watchlist, related changes, newpages)
 * 6) *Categories, templates
 * 7) Angela: intro to Wikipedia
 * 8) *Intro
 * 9) **Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
 * 10) **1 million articles total
 * 11) ***333,000 English
 * 12) ***133,000 German
 * 13) ***150,000 images (Is this still correct?)
 * 14) ***Open content (FDL)
 * 15) ***Founded January 2001
 * 16) *NPOV
 * 17) *What Wikipedia is not
 * 18) Angela: {not sure the title for this part)
 * 19) *Standards (Wikiquette, Neutrality)
 * 20) *Selectivity
 * 21) *Validation
 * 22) *Organization
 * 23) *Performance
 * 24) Angela: Common objections
 * 25) *"My prose"
 * 26) *Problem users (Trolling/Edit wars)
 * 27) *Vandalism/spam
 * 28) *Under construction
 * 29) *Accuracy/Errors
 * 30) Angela: Community features
 * 31) *community portal, help desk, goings-on, peer review etc.
 * 32) Jimbo: intro to Wikimedia (Intro, charitable purpose, not just a website, etc.)
 * 33) 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')
 * 34) Jimbo: what wikis are/what they can be used for
 * 35) Jimbo:how to make a wiki successful
 * 36) *need critical mass of good people, which requires openness
 * 37) *need to discourage bad people, which requires closedness
 * 38) *successful wiki communities find a balance which must adapt to changing circumstances over time
 * 39) Jimbo: how to scale the community
 * 40) *To some extent, communities scale naturally, because they are communities
 * 41) *But scaling requires good governance to prevent social breakdown