Wikipedia:WikiProject Digital Preservation
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Welcome to WikiProject Digital Preservation. This project was initiated by a community of digital preservation practitioners to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Digital Preservation and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the open tasks below.
Scope
The topics included under the scope of this project include:
- Digital preservation terms, concepts, theories, strategies and history
- Standards, best practices and common methods for:
- Packaging, transferring or modeling digital content
- Preserving the usability of digital content long-term
- Encoding and wrapping digital content using file formats, compression schemes, etc.
- Describing digital content using metadata
- Preservation repository architecture, operations and policies
- Certifying the trustworthiness of preservation repositories
- Related large-scale initiatives
Open tasks
There are many things to do here. The following is a start of a list. Here are some specific things needed:
- Improve the digital preservation article (this article acts as a portal to the articles tracked by this project)
- DONE Create quality pages for the bot
- DONE Create a banner for this project
- Create an image for the project.
- Seeking permission to use this image
- Also see these images created by Andrea:
- Assess the quality of the unassessed pages
Here are some more general things needed:
- Spread the word about this project
- Identify or create missing articles
- Add your expert knowledge to improve an article
- Expand a stub
- Add or improve references in an article
- Help to resolve a dispute
- Ask or answer a question
- Assess an article's quality
Participants
Our scope is relatively small so I don't anticipate we'll have a large number of participants. Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest if you'd like.
Review and assessment
Assessment of Digital Preservation Articles
Articles are assessed using the system and definitions developed as part of Wikipedia 1.0. This project rates articles by quality but not by importance. This scale is useful for tracking the progress of articles from the low end of unassessed or stubs through the high end of featured articles.
Articles are assessed by placing or updating a quality assessment on the talk page of an article. Anyone can rate an article. The only exceptions are the Good Article and Featured Article quality grades. These should only be added to articles which have been through the standard Wikipedia Good Article Nomination and Featured Article Candidacy procedures.
Statistics
| Digital Preservation pages by quality | |||||||
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| Quality | |||||||
| Total | |||||||
| B | 4 | ||||||
| C | 24 | ||||||
| Start | 59 | ||||||
| Stub | 8 | ||||||
| List | 4 | ||||||
| Category | 49 | ||||||
| Project | 4 | ||||||
| Template | 2 | ||||||
| NA | 4 | ||||||
| Assessed | 158 | ||||||
| Total | 158 | ||||||
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 451 | Ω = 4.75 | |||||
Categories
This is a holding spot for categorizing articles in different ways (thematically or by quality or both).
Templates
- Project banner - for use when assessing the quality of articles
- File format Infobox - for use on all file format articles. See for example Broadcast_Wave_Format.
Resources
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