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?
-Pete
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Does anybody else have an article they'd like to explore in this way? Or feedback on the Celilo Falls overview?
I'd love to do something similar! Are there other tools that can be used to delve into the article history? Doing something like this for one of the larger and most-viewed articles on Wikipedia would be a major undertaking.
Carcharoth
2009/12/18 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
Does anybody else have an article they'd like to explore in this way? Or feedback on the Celilo Falls overview?
I'd love to do something similar! Are there other tools that can be used to delve into the article history? Doing something like this for one of the larger and most-viewed articles on Wikipedia would be a major undertaking.
Of course, there are past hits. Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Movie.
http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html http://jonudell.net/udell/2005-01-22-heavy-metal-umlaut-the-movie.html
"Today's screencast traces the evolution of Wikipedia's Heavy metal umlaut page. I noticed it when both Tim Bray and David Weinberger pointed to it, but the page actually dates back to April 15, 2003.
"It's a wonderfully silly topic, but my point is somewhat serious too. The 8.5-minute screencast turns the change history of this Wiki page into a movie, scrolls forward and backward along the timeline of the document, and follows the development of several motifs. Creating this animated narration of a document's evolution was technically challenging, but I think it suggests interesting possibilities."
- d.
2009/12/18 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Of course, there are past hits. Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Movie. http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html http://jonudell.net/udell/2005-01-22-heavy-metal-umlaut-the-movie.html
Apparently someone wrote a GreaseMonkey script to do something like this for any article:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/can-contracts-survive-in-grassroo...
- d.
Pete,
Thanks for introducing us to the Outreach Wiki. I had never heard of it. I think that particular page might be improved to address the dynamics which surround controversial articles such as Global warming, Stalin, Chiropractic, or Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This treatment should not be allowed to overwhelm the story of articles like Celilo Falls but should be available both for our internal use and to address concerns of external critics. What articles are cited by scholarly critics as examples of unreliability?
Fred
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?
-Pete
-- Pete Forsyth Public Outreach Officer Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 x636 (office) +1 503-383-9454 (mobile) pforsyth@wikimedia.org www.wikimediafoundation.org
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