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 Wikipedia: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

A handshake when meeting someone is an example of initial cooperation

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

Chaos Theory

Initial image of a Mandelbrot set zoom sequence with continuously coloured environment

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

When an edit is made, other editors have these options: accept the edit, change the edit, or revert the edit. These options may be discussed if necessary. From: Wikipedia:Consensus

• Iterative development,
• Agile development
• Refactoring
• Cooperation

The world's first wiki

File:Wikiwikiweb1994.jpg

WikiWikiWeb page from 1994

WikiWikiWeb: (no talk, no userspace)

you can link to it using [[WikiWikiWeb:]]

• WikiWikiWeb:DocumentMode
• WikiWikiWeb:ThreadMode
• WikiWikiWeb:ReFactor
• WikiWikiWeb:WhatIsReworking
• WikiWikiWeb: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 meta: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

• [1] Wikimania submission:

Tips after talk

• check out Equity
• Cellular Automaton Software [2]