[WikiEN-l] The story of an article

[Apoc 2400]

Fascinating! I note how the article Celilo Falls was created a brought up to
four long paragraphs by User:67.168.209.23. Today IPs are not allowed to
create articles and some want to limit it to accounts that are four days old
and have made 10 edits.



> When introducing non-Wikipedians to the concept of Wikipedia, I've found
> many people want to know: *how does an article develop?*
>
> I just composed an overview of the development of a GA article I worked
> on with several others over several years:
>
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_an_article_(Celilo_Falls)
>
> And also, started a page on the Outreach wiki to link to such stories. I
> linked to several time lapse YouTube videos I've seen that do more or
> less the same.
>
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_an_article
>
> Does anybody else have an article they'd like to explore in this way? Or
> feedback on the Celilo Falls overview?
>