Talk:Future of Wikipedia

Background =

• The Wikipedia Timeline

Potential Problems to be Explored

Unsafe @ Any Speed?

• Need to consider the very real possibility that Wikipedia is an inherently defective social-technical product that cannot be fixed by any means even remotely feasible given the present conditions of its existence.

The View of Wikipedia in the Institution/Institutions?

Fleshing out references to bolster things?

The Quality Issue?

Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia

Using Mechanical Turks for editing

gate keeper

Online harassment or defamation problem in Wikipedia?

Star wars kid

ReputationDefender

Maybe this is not a problem of Wikipedia, this is a problem in the internet generally

Solutions Looking for Problems

Getting Educational Institutions to Explicitly Participate

• Partnership Program w/ Schools-Teachers?

  Need to identify what benefits, if any, would accrue to teachers, students, or Wikipedia by such a partnership.

  zing! Are We Ready to Use Wikipedia to Teach Writing?

Just be sure to read all the comments, too.

• so "Partnership" was thrown around incredibly loosely

• Getting students to flag hotspots (see flagging proposal)
• Getting students to learn about how projects like Wikipedia work
  • Clarifying how not to use Wikipedia
  • Addressing institutions' views on sources, primary and secondary
  • Addressing Wikipedian's concerns on newbies
• Keeping in mind all of this: Wikipedia school and university projects

Zittrain's highlighting proposal

Firefox Add-on like DisputeFinder?

Meta!Meta! Time Frame

HW due Jan. 13, 2009

• Go get your hands dirty in Wikipedia
• Rank biggest Problems
• Get Wikipedia Review guys to give us their thoughts
  • Hello and Welcome!