User:Kim Bruning/links for talk

=A short summary of the wiki universe in 20 minutes=



Kim Bruning. (English Wikipedia)

I can try, can't I? ;-)

This workshop is an extension of ye olde Lectures, so it'll be structured in roughly the same way. Which is to say: Very Wiki, or: Very Chaotic, depending on which crowd you belong to :-P

I'll walk through this very quickly so we can establish common ground.

Game Theory
tit for tat is a good stratagem. Documented on wikipedia as WP:AGF

Chaos Theory


Let's not get into this too deeply. Take home message: Making hard rules has unexpected results. (I don't have time to write a cellular automaton to demo simulated annealing though; and besides, playing with this stuff can take days anyway :-P )

Documented at WP:IAR. (Alternate: Gödel's incompleteness theorems)

Our Agile inheritence

 * Iterative development,
 * Agile development
 * Refactoring
 * Cooperation

The world's first wiki
(no talk, no userspace)

you can link to it using


 * DocumentMode
 * ThreadMode
 * ReFactor
 * WhatIsReworking
 * WikiPedia

TL;DR:
Wikipedia policy in a nutshell:



= Things people don't expect =
 * Other people unexpectedly edit 'your' pages!

Founding issues are not what you expect

 * WP:NOR, WP:RS are not part of Founding principles

As written, voting is not permitted!
I wonder how many people don't expect that ;-)


 * WP:POLL, (WP:NOT)

Subject Matter Experts get short shrift

 * WP:NOR, WP:BLP, but especially WP:COI, WP:POV

(note: COI and BLP conflict in awful ways. I can't fix a top-down policy like BLP, it's too involved. But that's a discussion for tomorrow)

Potential Questions

 * How did "old fashioned" wikis get anything done?
 * which is faster, mainspace or userspace? (1. What is it? 2. Why is it notable? 3. at least one reference)
 * which policies prevent new submissions?
 * How do I decide something without voting?
 * "who is in charge"? (governance)
 * how can we fix the SME problem? (I'll have to ask you folks :-) )

how other stuff works/ workshop things
Some of this is enwiki specific:
 * WP:BRD Bold, Revert Discuss
 * WP:POINT Don't disrupt wikipedia to make a point (2 elements!)
 * WP:IAR Ignore all Rules.
 * WP:CON Consensus

Other links

 * Wikimania submission:

Tips after talk

 * check out Equity
 * Cellular Automaton Software