Assignment Zero/Wikipedia desk

From Journawiki

Volunteers

• Editor, Maurreen Skowran
• Achilles Lakes, aka Achilles3
• Emily Hanson
• James "Texx" Smith

[edit] Assignments

• Assignment on Jimmy Wales, the founder or co-founder
• Campaigns Wikia, passed off from politics desk
• Assignment on Super-contributor profile
  • Finding a super-contributor

Other possible assignments

• Ward's Wiki (the Portland Pattern Repository) was the original Wiki
  • Interview originator Ward Cunningham (see his Wikipedia page for past interviews)
  • Compare a super-contributor from there, in its heyday (late 1990s(?)) to one from Wikipedia?
• Art (aka images) about wikipedia, etc.
• Niche wikis, especially internal ones used within a busines or other organization.
• Fact box, etc., on wikis in general
  • Difference between structure and process at WP and with Linux
  • Graph of growth
  • History
  • Table of some notable wikis, wiki farms, software
  • Where to find more info
  • Why wiki, why not
• Also see talk page.

Related assignments

• Citizendium (see great Shirky piece on Wikipedia vs Citizendium at [1] )