User:Rcooley~enwiki/ShadowWiki

Welcome to the ShadowWiki.

Intro
ShadowWiki is an attempt to create very high quality articles that are free from vandalism, ignorance, bias, bureaucracy, and all manner of WP stupidity.

Absolute requirements:
 * Maintain factually accuracy of live article. Debatable/Unverifiable material should be discussed on talk page.  ie. DON'T EVER BE BOLD!
 * Actively try to write and act in an unbiased fashion. It's not easy, but necessary.  Biased information is worse than NO information, and one biased editor is worse than hundreds of vandals.
 * Maintain good style. Simple but explanatory intro.  History.  Dates and names.  Include both "facts" and "what it means".
 * Make articles approachable. Text should have good flow, as each sentence and thought logically succeeds the next, and is in the order that introduces concepts in the order they are needed, and best understood as part of the whole.
 * Make articles interesting. Include as much "context" as possible for the average person to understand what each detail means, how it affects them, and why it's significant or different.
 * Do actual research, and include as many in-line citations in article as possible.

Articles

 * User:Rcooley/MPEG1 FINAL
 * User:Rcooley/VCD STABLE
 * User:Rcooley/DAB DRAFT
 * User:Rcooley/Theora DRAFT
 * User:Rcooley/PerceptualEntropy DRAFT

Todo
MPEG-1 article could pretty easily be extended to describe MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 as well. Mainly, citations for MPEG-2/4 need to be found. Also requires section on AAC/NBC, Transport Streams, etc. and of course expansion of History section.

Citation/Research Tips

 * Official company websites often have a news or investor news archive, often going back more than a decade. This is perfect for finding exact dates, particularly where the event in question  wasn't widely notable and/or occurred before the widespread use of the internet and seems undocumented.
 * The New York Times' website has searchable archives that go back a century, and cover everything from culture to technology. The BBC and China Daily are also respectable.
 * eetimes.com has a fairly substantial archive on technology.
 * citeseer.ist.psu.edu indexes thousands of old and new university students' papers.
 * Old sites are often gone or drastically changed. Use archive.org to look through several old versions, with the relevant info you need.
 * Through your research, you'll encounter new and sometimes archaic terms, specific to your subject, and sometimes specific to the period. Try a new search with those terms.
 * When you find an academic paper which cites other papers, search for those citations, you'll likely find other papers on a similar topic you haven't encountered.
 * Scour the websites of relevant companies, publications, "societies", individuals, etc. Scour Wikipedia as well, related articles may point to good sources, or at least a new site with other material.