Wikipedia: Success factors
Wikipedia's success mainly depend on its users - the Wikipedians. In
theory, everybody can be a Wikipedian. This thread is supposed to find
out if the theory holds true in practice.
The idea is that the Wiki-community of Wikipedians is a special group
of people, who have special characteristcs. To account for these
special characteristics, I have provided the following Factor
Model:
User factors: - Openness - Neutrality -
Flat hierarchy- Computer Skills - Motivation -
Knowledge factors: - Tacit & Explicit knowledge - Fast changing rate - Peer
review
Technology factors: - Easy usability - Fast access - Infinite reach,
multilingual - Flexible structure - Safe
All these factors play together to accomplish the goal of succesful
knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Success_factors
Comments, feedback and own ideas are very welcome!
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A new ripuarian Wikipedia has been set up on ksh.wikipedia.org. The testwiki with 9000+ pages should be transferred from wikoelsch.dergruenepunk.de and have already been exported from there. Purodha has been given temporary Bureaucrat status on ksh.wikipedia.org. However, import priviliges are disabled. How can these be activated? This Wikipedia has been for a month without articles, and we really want to hurry up to prevent a big mess, which would occur when new articles are created and then overwritten by the imported ones. Thank you for your help, Dominik
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I've been lurking on this list for a while now, waiting for the time
to actually work on the Mediawiki code. Therefore, I was very
interested in the proposed summer of code project "Wikitext parser
rewrite"(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006#Wikitext_parser_rewrite)
I am going to submit an application when I can, but I have a
clarifying question: Since wikitext does not appear to be even
context-free, will we be allowed to change how wikitext works? (I.e.
if the internal link syntax turns out (as I think it will) to be
non-context-free (and therefore there is not a parser generator for
it), will the student be able to change the syntax?)
Sincerely,
[[en:User:Simonfairfax|Silas Snider]]
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Recently, with the software update somewhat the wikipedia toolbar behavior
changed so it now is breaks many custom buttons. Or more exactly, the
monobook.js break the original buttons, as the custom ones work but the
originals don't react at clicking (deactivatin the monobook makes them work
so it's an incompatibility).
In order to look deeper on what makes them break (it may be even only on
some browsers :S)
Can anyone point the diff of that toolbar change? If this is talked anywhere
else, links are welcomed, too.
Platonides.
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Hello All,
I have a wiki, currently running the GeSHi syntax highlighting
extension[1].
I wish to use this from within a template page (Template:HF). This
template
page contains the following wikitext
Click
[http://john.greenbirdsystems.com/files/{{{1
<http://john.greenbirdsystems.com/files/%7B%7B%7B1>}}}<http://john.greenbirdsystems.com/files/%7B%7B%7B1%7D%7D%7D>here]
to download this file.
<bash-file>/var/www/john .greenbirdsystems.com/files/{{{1}}}</bash-file>
According to the extension, the file between the <bash-file> tags should
be
parsed and displayed inline when I call
{{HF|test.sh}}
from another page.
But because the order that extensions and templates are processed all I
get
is
Click here to download this file.
Could not load /var/www/john.greenbirdsystems.com/files/{{{1}}}
See how the template var is not expanded. The extension gets called
first.
Can anyone suggest a solution to my conumdrum?
When not in template form the plugin works great. Its source code is
available at [1]. I have done quite a bit of research trying to get tis
to
work but couldnt find anywhere that said anything about this situation.
Help
would be appreciated.
Cheers
John
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ajqnic:GeSHiHighlight