Wikipedia as a Bureaucratic Third Place Fernanda Viégas Martin Wattenberg May 9th, 2006

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Peer Review 1 2 3

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Peer Review 1 2 3

1st peer review

56 postings votes + comments Current peer review 56 postings votes + comments Citations WP:WIAFA NPOV bloated ToC article size WP:Lead WP:NOT Weasel Words Image copyright Be Bold

“Workflow”

1st peer review good articles 2nd peer review featured article Medicine collaboration of the week 1st peer review good articles featured article candidate 2nd peer review featured article Citations WP:WIAFA NPOV bloated ToC article size WP:Lead WP:NOT Weasel Words Image copyright Be Bold

guidelines

58 76 91 10 36 top-level guidelines naming conventions how-to content deletion 36

Structure: namespaces {{ns:-2}} Media {{ns:-1}} Special {{ns:0}} (main namespace, for regular Wikipedia articles) {{ns:1}} Talk (discussion pages for regular Wikipedia articles) {{ns:2}} User {{ns:3}} User_talk {{ns:4}} Wikipedia {{ns:5}} Wikipedia_talk {{ns:6}} Image {{ns:7}} Image_talk {{ns:8}} MediaWiki {{ns:9}} MediaWiki_talk {{ns:10}} Template {{ns:11}} Template_talk {{ns:12}} Help {{ns:13}} Help_talk {{ns:14}} Category {{ns:15}} Category_talk {{ns:100}} Portal {{ns:101}} Portal_talk

Structure: namespaces {{ns:-2}} Media {{ns:-1}} Special {{ns:0}} (main namespace, for regular Wikipedia articles) {{ns:1}} Talk (discussion pages for regular Wikipedia articles) {{ns:2}} User {{ns:3}} User_talk {{ns:4}} Wikipedia {{ns:5}} Wikipedia_talk {{ns:6}} Image {{ns:7}} Image_talk {{ns:8}} MediaWiki {{ns:9}} MediaWiki_talk {{ns:10}} Template {{ns:11}} Template_talk {{ns:12}} Help {{ns:13}} Help_talk {{ns:14}} Category {{ns:15}} Category_talk {{ns:100}} Portal {{ns:101}} Portal_talk

Wikis Persistence  documentation

Wikis Persistence  documentation Documentation  bureaucracy?

Wikis Documentation  bureaucracy? is that bad? Persistence  documentation Documentation  bureaucracy? is that bad?