User:Dylan Lake/Meta stuff
This is a collection of essays about Wikipedia related stuff. I could organise it into some coherent introduction to all the weird aspects of Wikipedia but I haven't. Note: some of the articles on external wikis (ie Meatball Wiki) are based on WikiPhilosophies contrary to Wikipedia's, so absorb with caution.
Stuff from within Wikipedia
[edit]- Raul's Laws — A compilation of observations by Raul654 about wikiprocess.
- Achieving validation on Wikipedia — The shortcomings of wikipedia and possible solutions.
- Process is Good — A discussion of the process (see also "The Process is Important"
- Thoughts from Kosebamse
- Isomorphic on policy
- The Question of Accuracy
- Adminship:Theory and practise
- The Rule of Law
- Wikiphilosophies
- Views
- Isomorphic on Deletionism
- Improv on Deletionism
- Embrace weasel words — An essay about cases where weasel words are preferred.
- Evaluating how interesting an integer's mathematical property is — Notability of numbers.
- Expert Retention — How to retain experts that have contributed once.
- The Future of Wikipedia: An Essay
- Is Wikipedia Capitalism?
- Criticism — A guide to writing criticism sections.
- Categories vs lists
- We need a policy to deal with policy
- What admins do
- Utility — Utilitarian wikipedianism.
- WikiMoney
- Why stable versions
- The Wiki Way — The way of the wiki.
- Why Ragesoss is a wikipedian — A manifesto
- A case study in intolerance — Transcript of an unnamed talk page.
- The Sociology of Wikipedia
- State of Wikipedia — An attempt to quantitatively measure the state of Wikipedia.
- Success factors — Diagram illustrating the factors that determine the success of a would-be Wikipedian.
- Introduction to deletion process
- Jamaican Bobsled Team clause — "You have no business here, Jamaica!"
- Light one candle — It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese proverb
- Observations on Wikipedia behaviour
- Wikipedia is not evil
- No angry mastodons — Defusing tension.
- Named topic bias
- Guide to Requests for adminship
- Arguments regarding Notability
- Political dispute
- Pokémon test — If every Pokémon has an article what is notability?
- Presentation — A sample 5 minute presentation about Wikipedia.
- Describing points of view — Bias.
- Don't-give-a-fuckism
- BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
Stuff from Meta-Wiki
[edit]A jumble of weird stuff from Meta-Wiki.
- Vocabulary
- Status quo
- Governance
- Visions
- Simple View of Ethics and Morals
- Threats
- Best cases
- Worst cases
- Governing Operational distinction
- Natural point of view
- Value system
- Governing Ontological distinction
- NPOV as description
- Value systems
- A Small scale study of Wikipedia
- Association of Structurist Wikipedians
- Darwikinism
- Instruction creep
- Historical/How to Destroy Wikipedia
- Battlefield of ideas
- Is Wikipedia an experiment in anarchy
- Twelve leverage points
- More heat than light
- Reading level
- Logic and Wikipedia
- Past
- Wikipedia commentary
- Meta:Historical
- Politics
- WikipediAhimsa
- Spam blacklist policy discussion
- TMC's sysop request
- Why there will always be debate in this project
- Quality
- Professional writers
- Poor language skills
- Peer review and the Wikipedia process
- Offensive content
- Breadth and depth
- Brainstorming for revenue sources
- A new wikipediast grumpy at the FAQ
- Minor
- Regime change
- Don't vote on everything
- Community
- Edit evaluation parameters
- Childrens' Wikipedia
- Bans and blocks
- Bans
- Censorship on wikimedia projects
- Can history be truly NPOV?
- Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
- Vandalism reports
- Anti-vandalism ideas
- Wikipedia vandalism
- Wikipedia is an MMORPG
- Association of Wikimedians
- Power structure
- Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
- Wikipedia vandalism
- Edit evaluation parameters
- Original Wikipedia
- Wikipedia mascot
- The Advanced Wikipedian
- The last page
- How to deal with Poles
- The Wrong Version
Legal
[edit]Promotion
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