Wikipedia:WikiProject Community

Welcome to the Wikipedia Community project

This WikiProject space is a gateway into and out of Wikipedia - the Free Encyclopedia created and maintained by the Wikipedia Community. Not only is Wikipedia free to read, quote, copy, use and enjoy, but it is also free to edit, write, append, change, and improve. In fact you can edit this page right now by simply clicking on any button that says edit.

The Wikipedia Community's goal is to build the best encyclopedia in the World. Reaching this goal requires an extremely high level of organization and commitment. As winner of the 2004 Webby Award for Best Community, Wikipedia defined the term community-built and earned its place as a world leader among online communities. Attaining this goal demonstrates what a vibrant community can accomplish.

"Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal." --Jimmy Wales

This WikiProject's task is to build and open a premier Community Center that is to be wide open to the whole world. The versatile MediaWiki web technology that runs Wikipedia is among the best collaboration software on Earth and is freely available under the GNU General Public Licence. In direct opposition to the practice of hiding valuable knowlege from the public, the developers of the software have commited to the open source model of doing buisness online. Their commitment to quality and spirit of community represents an unprecedented means by which to accomplish community-driven goals. The wikipedians in this WikiProject are following their lead and learning how to use the technology for even greater good. It's the Right Thing to do.

Get involved!

Title

WikiProject on Community better known as The Wikipedia Community Builders Taskforce

Scope

This project's primary purpose is to build and manage the Wikipedia Community Reference - a guide to articles that deal with the definitions of community and community development in general. The secondary purpose is to apply what we learn from that reference to the Wikipedia Community itself.

Parentage

Stepfather: WikiProject Sociology
- Possible real dad: WikiProject Wikidemia
Mother: The Wikipedia Community

Descendant WikiProjects

m:BabyWikipedia - a local context version of the Wikipedia for towns, counties and cities
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Keywords - A tool for handling metadata from a userland perspective
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture - a project for aggrigating articles about Culture and helping to manage Wikiportal/Culture (inactive)

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

Some aspects of this project are similar to the Wikipedia Community's Village pump

Participants

This project can't be cool! There's nobody here! herd mentality

Hierarchy definition

This project falls under The Humanities as an Academic discipline in Sociology relating to Community, Community development and other branches of Science such as Communications and Computational sociology.

The project scope also branches into Culture The Community project may eventually interface Hierachically to Psychology, Technology and geography projects as well.

Wikipedia Lists

Encyclopedia Reference

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Community

Community (disambiguation) contains a some lists.
- List of online communities

Wikipedia namespace

Applied Community Development

One Good Thing we're doing for the internal community is to use WikiHash to collate all the little directories into one big Super-community-directory The directory exists now in the form of the Wikipedia:Community_hash. Eventually, it will be compacted to User:Quinobi/WikiHash (directory) and presented to the folks that run the Wikipedia:Community portal in the Wikipedia namespace.

The Wikipedia_talk:Community_hash is for hashing out problems and difficulties and working things out among Wikipedians. It contains references to discussions that show how Wikipedia - the community works together to build Wikipedia - the encyclopedia.

Goals

Primary (encyclopedic) Project Goals

To apply higher standards for Wikipedia - the encyclopedia
To develop a uniform reference for curriculum in the Humanities - the Wikipedia Community Reference
To help in the Classification of various kinds of Communities
To identify and promote articles that may serve to improve:

Internet standards relating to Virtual community
Community standards relating to Citizenship

Secondary (applied) Project Goals

To help catylize positive work on Projects within Wikipedia - the Community
To help facilitate a tighter community with Wikipedia sister projects
To improve interpersonal relationships between Netizens in general - Sense of Community
To invoke the Spirit of Community in the context of the Global village

Articles

Keywords

plenary, commute, gather, gathering, gathering place, affinity, group ...

Portals

General strategy and discussion forums

This project is also here to help Wikipedians find their way around the Wikipedia community and perhaps a sense of community for themselves.

Wikimedia Foundation

Home

Community Builders Guide

Forum

With the internet expanding, more people are finding free expression through it. As a result, the conceptual framework of collaboration, cultural exchange, freedom of association, language translation, and many other advances are forming a Global village on the Internet. The Wikipedia phenomenon is only one example of such a framework.

The Wikipedia Community Project values the Virtues and Ideals that have motivated the development of Wikipedia since its inception, and its members desire to build upon that context. Our primary goal is to galvanize the Wikipedia Community and help it find its place in the Internet of tomorrow, if there is to be one.

Every individual has some level and form of self-interest and a corresponding sense of community. What differentiates these two mindsets, is the degree of commitment to the public interest. A high degree of doing something toward the public interest is often called a social contract. We believe that m:The Wikipedia Community is collectively bound to a special covenant with the next generation.

As in the case of Wikipedia, many web-enabled groups have formed associations through sharing their knowledge base freely and openly across the network. This represents a revolution in thinking, or to use the cliche - paradigm shift away from the proprietary structures and self-interest of the corporate mindset in the previous century. The central theme of this Wikiproject is openness.

The reference section shows full URLs so that the page can be used on external sites. Please maintain this convention.

From the English language Wikipedia:
From the MetaWikipedia site:
From outside of the Wikimedia project
- http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/ (Phantom authority)

Community Project | Acedemics Project | Community-builder's Guide | Community Project Journal | Community Discussion Forum

Mediawiki is an Interface

One of the key features of this WikiProject is that it provides a friendly Interface between the inside world of MediaWiki and the outside world of Wikipedia. Whenever you see a link with m:some_article (note the m:}', clicking on it takes you out of the main Namespace of Wikipedia to an article in another realm they call Meta. This all works together through a resilient network of domains, namespaces and templates called the MediaWiki_architecture.

Meta means "above and beyond" or "aside from", but It represents the next level down in the hierarchy. You can edit articles on Meta just like you can here on the main Wikipedia, but with less restrictions as to the content. However, the social workings at Meta are quite different than they are here, mainly because there you are in the company of the folks who created all of this to begin with. There, you will also find yourself closer to the Wikimedia Foundation, the folks who fund Wikipedia and all of her sister projects - essentially the bottom layer. The buck stops there.

Here, There and Back

Here we are not just concerned with the structure of 'Wikipedia articles on Community', but also on the health of the Wikipedia community itself as well as the quality of the code that runs underneith the community. The infrastructure is designed to bring Wikipedia users and MediaWiki developers closer to the needs of the general public. We want to enhance and improve the processes involved in writing a good encyclopedia while building a better sense of community. The way we go about things works and is carrying us to the next level.

To fully understand the nature of community, you must start at a personal level and expand - one relationship at a time. The world wide web is a treacherous place and noone wants to go 'out there' alone. The Wikipedia community is a safe place and people from all walks of life have made sacrifices to keep it that way. It's time for us come in from the 'general public' to jump in here and lend a hand. So now I drop the first person plural and address you. I don't know if you're male or female, young or old, rich or poor. It doesn't matter. I understand that everyone needs knowledge and understanding to survive in this world. I hope you find these resources useful there ...in your own life.

Get Involved

Thank you for your participation. Below are ways you can branch out to and from The Community WikiProject. If you're envolved in other WikiProjects, please list them here. Remember. The principle of openess is always in play here.

Orientation

Please read and edit:

WikiProjects - a community of practice

WikiProjects are one way for Wikipedians to get plugged into the process of building and editing the Wikipedia. As Wikipedians with an interest in community development, The Community Builders Taskforce' has selected WikiProjects as a testbed for building experience working within a live community of practice.

One way we can help is to develop a sense of structure by systematic analysis of the existing array of WikiProjects based on the theories and principles we discover by reading Wikipedia articles under the topic, community. What we have dicovered is that the principle of self-organization is very much at play within the WikiProject workspace.

WikiProject Central

see Our schema for lending a hand.

Infoboxes

WikiProjectNotice: Module:WikiProject banner/doc
This page is a soft redirect.

Please do not add this Infobox to an article's talk page not listed above. To discuss which Articles to add to (or remove from} the Articles list, please use our project's talk page

To place the infobox shown above into the Talk page of a Community-related article type:

{{Template:WikiProjectNotice|Community}}

Don't place this infobox on an article page!

To learn more about Infoboxes like this one, see Template talk:WikiProjectNotice.
To learn more about WikiProject management, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Best_practices

Templates and examples

Sociology Stub

{{socio-stub)) The socio-stub tag can be used on articals you'ld like to "pull into" this project at the parent level. Consider our lineage:

Humanities

Sociology

Community

Next, we'll create a new stub "closer to home"

Community Stub

This is a proposed stub category and template at this point!

For the guidelines on creating and implementing it, see Wikipedia:Stub

category:Community

Template:Community-stub

Once the Stub category and template have cleared the m:proper channels, the Community (disambiguation) article will be created. Then the project can launch fully.

Community (disambiguation)

was based on Mississippi (disambiguation)

Navigate

Community Project Navbar:

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Spread the meme! | let's hash it out

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