User:BlankVerse/Sandbox
A suggestion for possible expansion of wiki articles, using the English Wikipedia as an example. For many non-Wikimedia wikis, there should also be someplace to mention the parent website.
- Introduction
brief intro paragraph
2nd expansion paragraph covering Wikipedia:NPOV, etc.
- About
- Policies and Guidelines
- Governance
- Community
Many of the Wikipedia editors are high school and college age young males, predominantly from North America and Western Europe. This not only effects what topics get the most attention, but may also effect their behavior. Do not be surprised when some editors choose edit wars over page content instead of discussion and compromise.
- Controveries
- Seigenthaler (sp?)
- Related Wikis
- Meta Wikipedia: parent wiki with policies and guidelines covering all Wikimedia projects
- Simple English Wikipedia
- English language versions of
- Statistics
A table with a date column, plus columns for the number of articles, users, and admins (from Special:Statistics for MediaWiki wikis). For larger wikis, maybe a column for their Alexa rating as well. [note:current stats in the table are fake.]
| date | articles | users | admins | Alexa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1/2006 | 700,000 | 35,000 | 500 | 40 |
| ?? | ||||
| ?? |
- Blogs and discussion groups
- Additional data
- Sponsoring organization: Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org
- Copyright policy: GFDL
- Contact info: ????
- Reviews of this wiki
- English Wikipedia/Reviews [reviews added by WikiIndex visitors added onto a subpage]
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia [Wikipedia article on the Website]
- Wikipedia article at Everything2
- Amazon.com user reviews
- Mirror websites
The Wikipedia has numerous mirror websites. Some of them have cooperative agreements with the Wikipedia, while others have only posted an old download of the database that is never updated, and they have removed all reference to the Wikipedia and the GFDL licence. Here are two of the better mirrors:
- Forks of the Wikipedia
- Other Websites
- http://a9.com: search engine supports Wikipedia searches
- http://clusty.com search engine that emphasizes Wikipedia in its search results