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This is the '''Version 1.0 Editorial Team''' page.

==General background==
]

In late 2003, Misplaced Pages co-founder ] had <span class="plainlinks"></span> making an offline release version of Misplaced Pages. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving and maintaining a core set. Our work does not hinder the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles, but rather it supports that work by providing additional organization. We aim to produce collections that can be used in places where the internet coverage is expensive or non-existent. Our early collections were distributed via DVD; now these are shared via download, then distributed on hardware such as a ]. Originally, only a fixed selection was available, but there is now much flexibility in how selections can be made. This project is now mainly one point in a network of groups who collect and distribute ] from the Internet in an offline form.

''See these more detailed related articles:''
* ]
* ]
* ]
* ]

==How you can help==
{{Main|Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/To do}}
You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Misplaced Pages 1.0 on the ]. A significant part of our work centers around maintaining the ], which is now used on ] by ] on the English Misplaced Pages. It is also being used on other language projects. Generally work on this team is sporadic – periods of hectic activity followed by long periods of waiting! Often work is long and tedious – checking through a list of 22,000 instances of profanities one by one, organizing 10,000 keywords taken from category names, or dealing with technical bugs when the assessment bot fails for no apparent reason. However, .


Our strategy has been intensely debated, but the group has reached a consensus. We elected not to follow the ] model. Instead we chose to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We have produced three test versions: ], ], and ] with the goal of releasing better collections of articles in due course. The next general release is generically referred to as "Release Version" while our first "official" comprehensive release will be called ''Version 1.0''. These collections are then made available for offline use using a reader such as , which was chosen as . The project was on hiatus for several years because of the loss of our main developer. However, as of February 2016, a new group of developers has begun work on upgrading the code and the process, in order to start producing new collections again, especially collections for schools.
The goal of this Misplaced Pages Version 1.0 Editorial Team is to work toward a set of articles suitable for release in print, CD, DVD, or some combination.


===Current needs===
This may involve identifying, improving or maintaining selected articles. In 2003, Jimbo Wales making a release version. Our work will not affect the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles. We are aiming to begin with a set of quality articles on key subjects (core topics) and to build a full encyclopedia from this base.
Although we have much of the requisite system automated, there are still some outstanding tasks:
* Preparation of a reliable index. If you can write code and you're interested in how to map category trees into a useful index (not as easy as it sounds!) please .
* Reviewing manual nominations. Whenever there is a new release being planned, we need volunteers to review a few articles and process them.
* Propose useful "guide" pages to be added, such as lists and disambiguation pages.
* Check for vandalism in the selected version-IDs of the articles.
* Develop nice pages for navigation through the content, such as subject portals.
* Test the reader software, and find and report bugs.
* Help with distribution, especially in remote areas without Internet access.


Please let us know on the Talk page if you can help with any of these.
You're encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Misplaced Pages 1.0 on the ].


]]]
==Strategy==
This has been the subject of intense debate, but the group has reached a general consensus. We elected not to follow the ]. Instead we aim to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We plan to produce a smaller test version before releasing a larger collection of articles.


==Status== ==Status==
At present, the main activities are:
Much of the work so far has centered on identifying important topics and assessing articles. We are now beginning to work on improving key articles and organizing articles for publication.
* The ''']''', which is used by WikiProjects for organizing their content, using talk page tags and ]. The bot was updated with completely new Perl code in 2020–2021, and it is currently maintained by ]. Technical problems with the bot should be reported ]. Related to this work is the WP1.0 server (previously called "Release Version Tools) which provides ways for WikiProjects to analyze article lists and data relating to their work.
*The group has already ] the list of ] and improved several articles (one to FA status) &ndash; this work continues.
* '''Collaborations to produce offline collections''' are done in collaboration with various people from ] and ]. Please contact ] if you wish to help.
*All of the WikiProjects (several hundred) on our list have been contacted, and their suggestions are being organized on ] or on their own ]. We plan to request further input from WikiProjects to identify their most important articles.

*We have ] to identify any problems with this important class of articles.
To select articles, we are mainly using a bot-assisted selection process based on assessment by individual WikiProjects, where articles are selected automatically based on ] and ] project rankings.
*The ] is working with the meta-Wiki group to introduce a , though the introduction of this scheme has been stalled for several months.

*We already work with other existing projects such as ], ], ], and ], but we seek to coordinate our work more closely with these groups.
===RevID selection===
Based on discussions (at the 2017 Potsdam hackathon and since), we plan to reactivate ] selection. Previously code based on ] was used in Version 0.8, and this appeared to produce a largely vandalism-free collection of articles. This worked by scoring each RevID based on the edits remaining in it, and choosing the most "trustworthy" recent RevID based on the WikiTrust algorithm.


==Misplaced Pages 1.0 projects== ==Misplaced Pages 1.0 projects==
===Active projects=== ===Active projects===
If you would like to start a new project, please discuss it on the talk page first before adding it here.
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| ''']''' |'''School selection'''
| Put together selections of 1–10&nbsp;GB sizes for use in high schools and elementary schools
| Small foundation based on core topics, build from there.
| ] | ] and others
| Uses new code that starts with a seed and works out, guided by the WP 1 selection ranking to guide it
| Improve a set of around 160 articles on top-level subjects, through a ] and other collaborations. Once these reach a publishable standard, a further set of key topics will be assessed and brought up to standard.
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|''']''' |''']''' (WVWP)
| Use known quality articles
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| Now ] older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Misplaced Pages 1.0.
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| Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists | Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists
| ] | ]
| Contact each WikiProject individually. Record article suggestions from the WikiProjects and seeking to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. The project serves as a link with the editing community, and later will assist in bringing in expert reviewers prior to publication. | Organise and facilitate compilation of ] and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. Locate important topics that are currently not being managed by projects. In conjunction with ], the project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers.
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| Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki
| ]
| Aims to use data from the to provide rankings of articles, such that important quality articles can be automatically identified for inclusion in Misplaced Pages 1.0.
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|''']''' (Test Version)
| Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by ]
| ]
| ]'s group has already released a version with 2000 articles and some level of organized quality control and standards.
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|''']'''
| Will focus initially on continents and countries.
| ]
| A stand-alone geography release could be made, and it could be a test for wider-ranging release.
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===Proposed projects=== ===Past releases===
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*''']''' (other names welcome :-) aims to give experts in each field the tools to review articles in their area of expertise and "bless" particular revisions as meeting their standard of judgement.
#Allow editors to propose new "blessing" groups. Ex: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
#Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
#Each blessing group would consist of this set of guidelines, and a set of users who could "bless" a revision of an article as satisfying them.
#Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
:To be coordinated by ], Jeff Keller, ].


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*''']''' proposes to produce essentially a descriptive ] of the world for publication. This could include an atlas, continents, countries and major cities. This would serve as a test bed for publishing Misplaced Pages 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product.

*''']''' lets all users participate in a three part editing process to assure that pages are up to quality standards. The first level is just a general check, the second level is a factual check, and the third level is a last "just in case" check. This process would assure that articles would be up to standards without putting too much responsibility on one user.

*''']''' -- Essentially, have the community decide what to include, but with a threshold for nomination eligibility. Proposed by ].

==Stages to publication==
*Bring our identified core topic articles (about 160) up to an agreed standard of quality. This work is coordinated through the ].
*Add a further list of "key topics" which includes many more specific subjects (important historical figures, etc.), as discussed ].
*Integrate suitable ] and the key quality articles identified by our contacts with WikiProjects into the core or key lists.
*Organize the articles in a coherent way, and identify any significant missing topics or articles needing urgent review. Integrate articles with suitable support material (lists, etc.).
*Identify any possible publication problems, agree on suitable publishers, pricing, media.
*Issue a final list of articles for publication. Ideally these would be reviewed by subject experts, and validated versions identified before publication.
*Publish, on DVD, CD, paper or some combination.

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| {{User|Randy Johnston|Randy Johnston}}
| A test release prior to release of ] above.
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| April 2007
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| A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used manual nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval was by only one person, from the ].
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|''']'''
| {{User|Maurreen|Maurreen}}
| A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of ] above.
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| Early 2010
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| A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used ] to make an article selection based on importance and quality. Vandalism prevention used a script, with manual checks, which delayed the release significantly.
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|''']'''
| {{User|Lyellin|Lyellin}}
|A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of ] above.
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| March 2011
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| A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Version 0.8 used bot-assisted article selection, with manual adjustments based on feedback from WikiProjects. Used as a test of the WikiTrust revisionID selection code - this worked well.
| ].
| ]
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|''']''' (previously called "Test Version")
| {{User|Jmabel|Jmabel}}
| Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo
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| April 2006
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| 2000 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see ]).
| No longer available - see 2008/9 release below
| 2007 Misplaced Pages CD Selection (below)
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|''']'''
| {{User|Andrevan|Andre}}
| Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by ]
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| May 2007
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| 4655 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see ]).
| No longer available - see 2008/9 release below
| 2008/9 Misplaced Pages CD Selection (below)
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|''']'''
| {{User|Stirling Newberry|Stirling Newberry}}
| Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by ]
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| October 2008
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| 5502 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see ]).
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| {{User|Fuzheado|Fuzheado}}

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| {{User|David Gerard|David Gerard}}
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! {{chemical datatable header}} colspan=1 | Description of activities
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|''']'''
| {{User|Hawstom|Tom Haws}}
| Gives experts in each field the tools to review suitable articles in their area of expertise and give their okay to particular revisions.
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| ], Jeff Keller, ]
| |
# Allow editors to propose new groups; for example: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
# Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
# Each blessing group would consist of this set of guidelines, and a set of users who could bless a revision of an article as satisfying them.
# Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
|- |-
|''']'''
| {{User|Jdforrester|James F.}}
| ] older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Misplaced Pages 1.0.
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| (Now a standard part of the FA system)
|- |-
|''']'''
| {{User|Ed Poor|-- Uncle Ed}}
| to produce a descriptive ] of the world for publication.
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| This could include an atlas, continents, countries and major cities. This would serve as a test bed for publishing Misplaced Pages 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product.
|- |-
|''']'''
| {{User|Ugen64|ugen}}
| Users participate in a three part editing process to assure that pages are up to quality standards.
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| The first level is just a general check, the second level is a factual check, and the third level is a last "just in case" check. This process would assure that articles would be up to standards without putting too much responsibility on one user.
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|''']'''
| {{User|Estel|Estel}}
| Improve and assess biographical articles
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| Focus especially on the 200 ], in conjunction with ].
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|''']'''
| {{User|Blyth McManus|Blyth McManus}}
| Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs.
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| An evolving list of no more than half of Misplaced Pages's most important featured articles, featured lists, and designated good articles.
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|''']'''
| {{User|Radman1|RaD Man}}
| Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki.
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| |
| Aims to use data from the to provide rankings of articles, such that important quality articles can be automatically identified for inclusion in Misplaced Pages 1.0. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
|- |-
|''']'''
| {{User|Mark Dingemanse|Mark}}
| To assess articles
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| This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
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| {{User|Polyparadigm|Joel}}
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| {{User|Ahmednh|Ahmednh}}
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| {{User|Walkerma|Martin Walker}}
| Assessment & validation, chemistry
| Core topics, WVWP
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| {{User|Aranu|Aranu}}
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| {{User|Jossi|&asymp; jossi &asymp;}}
| Sourcing images, article layout
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| {{User|The1physicist|the1physicist}}
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| work with sports biographys, hip-hop, and City articles, also ].
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| Assessment, ]
| WVWP, WikiSort
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| Copyediting, Disney-related articles
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| Culture, Society, Sustainability
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| Spirituality/religion, animal related, psychology/sexology<br />Specialist enjoyment: intro redrafts and problem article cleanup.
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== Publishing steps ==
Add {{tl|User WP1.0}} to your userpage to add this userbox - {{User WP1.0}}
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The process of generating an offline version of a sub-selection of Misplaced Pages article is multistage. It needs many dedicated and singled-purposed operations. The following chart show how the WP1 project envisioned things in 2010.
== Related pages ==


]
* ]

* ] - argues the benefit of article validation and possible implementations
Even if this chart is still, to a large extend, valid; we practice and envision things slightly differently nowadays. One of the most important paradigm change we had to make is to remove as much as possible human based manual activity because the amount of work is simply too high to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time. We tend now to automate as much as possible the whole process. As a consequence the project is now predominantly focused on technology.
* ]

* ] - Jimbo's Oct 2004 ideas on how to get to 1.0
== Technical approach ==
* ]

* ] - various proposals for approval mechanisms.
=== Support Wikiproject assessment effort ===

The first software created to support the WP1 project has been the ]. First written in Perl by ] and then slighly modified and maintained by a few other volunteers. In 2020 the bot has been (API, automated tests, etc.) by ]. The code base is available en developed .

The WP1bot had and still have three traditional purposes:
* gather assessments (via categories introduced on main namespace articles talk pages),
* upload on Misplaced Pages logs & stats
* provide key information & tools to Wikiproject on a . The data can also be accessed through an API at

=== Select article titles ===
...

=== Select article revision ===
...

=== Scrape selected articles for offline usage ===
...

=== Orchestrate periodic and multiple scraping ===
...

=== Publish and distribute offline snapshots ===
...

==Statistics==
The ] tracks assessment data (article quality and importance data for individual WikiProjects) assigned via Talk page banners. If you would like to add a new WikiProject to the bot's list, please read the instructions at ].

The global summary table below is computed by taking the highest quality and importance rating for each assessed article in the main namespace.

{{Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Statistics}}

==Related pages==
===General===
* ] - Jimbo's Oct 2004 ideas on how to get to 1.0.
* ] Early discussion page for brainstorming ideas, before this team was created.
* ]
* ]

===Assessment and validation===
* ]
* ] and ] - argue the benefit of article validation and possible implementations
* ] (similar to the older "]")
** ]
** ]
** ]
** ]
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* ] * ]
* ]
* ] * ]
* ]
* ] * ]
* ] * ]

===Misplaced Pages books===
* ] & ] - Misplaced Pages books are collections of articles from Misplaced Pages on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form.
* The ''']''', and , a collaboration between the Foundation and OSI/PediaPress.

===Article selections===
* ]
* ] - Filling the gaps. * ] - Filling the gaps.
* ] & ] - WikiReaders are collections of articles from Misplaced Pages on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form.
* ] * ]
* Featured Articles * Featured Articles
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==See also==
* ] - compare Misplaced Pages with other projects

{{Misplaced Pages community|state=collapsed}}
] ]
] ]
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Latest revision as of 17:40, 6 September 2024

This page in a nutshell: We are publishing selections of Misplaced Pages articles for offline use in Kiwix releases, in print, or for distribution on flash drives/memory cards. Most of the work is organized off wiki.Shortcuts
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This is the Version 1.0 Editorial Team page.

General background

Article ratings assessment scheme

In late 2003, Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales had proposed making an offline release version of Misplaced Pages. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving and maintaining a core set. Our work does not hinder the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles, but rather it supports that work by providing additional organization. We aim to produce collections that can be used in places where the internet coverage is expensive or non-existent. Our early collections were distributed via DVD; now these are shared via download, then distributed on hardware such as a Raspberry Pi. Originally, only a fixed selection was available, but there is now much flexibility in how selections can be made. This project is now mainly one point in a network of groups who collect and distribute open educational resources from the Internet in an offline form.

See these more detailed related articles:

How you can help

Main page: Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/To do

You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Misplaced Pages 1.0 on the talk page. A significant part of our work centers around maintaining the assessment scheme, which is now used on more than seven million articles by over 1000 active WikiProjects on the English Misplaced Pages. It is also being used on other language projects. Generally work on this team is sporadic – periods of hectic activity followed by long periods of waiting! Often work is long and tedious – checking through a list of 22,000 instances of profanities one by one, organizing 10,000 keywords taken from category names, or dealing with technical bugs when the assessment bot fails for no apparent reason. However, it is all worth it in the end.

Our strategy has been intensely debated, but the group has reached a consensus. We elected not to follow the German model. Instead we chose to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We have produced three test versions: Version 0.5, Version 0.7, and Version 0.8 with the goal of releasing better collections of articles in due course. The next general release is generically referred to as "Release Version" while our first "official" comprehensive release will be called Version 1.0. These collections are then made available for offline use using a reader such as Kiwix, which was chosen as Sourceforge project of the month. The project was on hiatus for several years because of the loss of our main developer. However, as of February 2016, a new group of developers has begun work on upgrading the code and the process, in order to start producing new collections again, especially collections for schools.

Current needs

Although we have much of the requisite system automated, there are still some outstanding tasks:

  • Preparation of a reliable index. If you can write code and you're interested in how to map category trees into a useful index (not as easy as it sounds!) please contact Walkerma.
  • Reviewing manual nominations. Whenever there is a new release being planned, we need volunteers to review a few articles and process them.
  • Propose useful "guide" pages to be added, such as lists and disambiguation pages.
  • Check for vandalism in the selected version-IDs of the articles.
  • Develop nice pages for navigation through the content, such as subject portals.
  • Test the reader software, and find and report bugs.
  • Help with distribution, especially in remote areas without Internet access.

Please let us know on the Talk page if you can help with any of these.

A page read offline in Kiwix

Status

At present, the main activities are:

  • The assessment scheme, which is used by WikiProjects for organizing their content, using talk page tags and the WP1.0 bot. The bot was updated with completely new Perl code in 2020–2021, and it is currently maintained by User:Audiodude. Technical problems with the bot should be reported here. Related to this work is the WP1.0 server (previously called "Release Version Tools) which provides ways for WikiProjects to analyze article lists and data relating to their work.
  • Collaborations to produce offline collections are done in collaboration with various people from Kiwix and Internet-in-a-Box. Please contact Walkerma if you wish to help.

To select articles, we are mainly using a bot-assisted selection process based on assessment by individual WikiProjects, where articles are selected automatically based on quality and importance project rankings.

RevID selection

Based on discussions (at the 2017 Potsdam hackathon and since), we plan to reactivate RevID selection. Previously code based on WikiTrust was used in Version 0.8, and this appeared to produce a largely vandalism-free collection of articles. This worked by scoring each RevID based on the edits remaining in it, and choosing the most "trustworthy" recent RevID based on the WikiTrust algorithm.

Misplaced Pages 1.0 projects

Active projects

If you would like to start a new project, please discuss it on the talk page first before adding it here.

Misplaced Pages 1.0 Projects
Name Summary of overall strategy Coordinator Description of activities
School selection Put together selections of 1–10 GB sizes for use in high schools and elementary schools User:Walkerma and others Uses new code that starts with a seed and works out, guided by the WP 1 selection ranking to guide it
Work via WikiProjects (WVWP) Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists User:Walkerma Organise and facilitate compilation of article lists from the WikiProjects and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. Locate important topics that are currently not being managed by projects. In conjunction with WP:COUNCIL, the project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers.

Past releases

Past Misplaced Pages 1.0 Projects
Name Summary of overall strategy Month of release Description of activities Website Next release
Version 0.5 A test release prior to release of Version 1.0 above. April 2007 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used manual nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval was by only one person, from the review team. Okawix Version 0.7
Version 0.7 A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of Version 1.0 above. Early 2010 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used SelectionBot to make an article selection based on importance and quality. Vandalism prevention used a script, with manual checks, which delayed the release significantly. Kiwix reader, ZIM download Version 0.8
Version 0.8 A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of Version 1.0 above. March 2011 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Version 0.8 used bot-assisted article selection, with manual adjustments based on feedback from WikiProjects. Used as a test of the WikiTrust revisionID selection code - this worked well. Misplaced Pages:Version 0.8/downloads. Version 0.9
2006 Misplaced Pages CD Selection (previously called "Test Version") Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo April 2006 2000 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages CD Selection). No longer available - see 2008/9 release below 2007 Misplaced Pages CD Selection (below)
2007 Misplaced Pages CD Selection Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo May 2007 4655 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages CD Selection). No longer available - see 2008/9 release below 2008/9 Misplaced Pages CD Selection (below)
2008/9 Misplaced Pages CD Selection Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo October 2008 5502 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages CD Selection). http://schools-wikipedia.org Not yet known

Inactive projects

Inactive Misplaced Pages 1.0 Projects
Name Summary of overall strategy Coordinator Description of activities
Authoritative Editions Gives experts in each field the tools to review suitable articles in their area of expertise and give their okay to particular revisions. Sj, Jeff Keller, Gnp
  1. Allow editors to propose new groups; for example: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review".
  2. Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines.
  3. Each blessing group would consist of this set of guidelines, and a set of users who could bless a revision of an article as satisfying them.
  4. Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions.
Featured Articles First reviewing older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Misplaced Pages 1.0. (Now a standard part of the FA system)
Geography project to produce a descriptive gazetteer of the world for publication. This could include an atlas, continents, countries and major cities. This would serve as a test bed for publishing Misplaced Pages 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product.
Three Level Editing Users participate in a three part editing process to assure that pages are up to quality standards. The first level is just a general check, the second level is a factual check, and the third level is a last "just in case" check. This process would assure that articles would be up to standards without putting too much responsibility on one user.
Biographies Improve and assess biographical articles Focus especially on the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Biography.

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Dynamic Pocket Cyclopedia Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs. An evolving list of no more than half of Misplaced Pages's most important featured articles, featured lists, and designated good articles.
WikiSort Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki. Aims to use data from the planned user rating scheme to provide rankings of articles, such that important quality articles can be automatically identified for inclusion in Misplaced Pages 1.0. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).
Article assessment To assess articles This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).

Publishing steps

The process of generating an offline version of a sub-selection of Misplaced Pages article is multistage. It needs many dedicated and singled-purposed operations. The following chart show how the WP1 project envisioned things in 2010.

The general process for producing an offline release

Even if this chart is still, to a large extend, valid; we practice and envision things slightly differently nowadays. One of the most important paradigm change we had to make is to remove as much as possible human based manual activity because the amount of work is simply too high to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time. We tend now to automate as much as possible the whole process. As a consequence the project is now predominantly focused on technology.

Technical approach

Support Wikiproject assessment effort

The first software created to support the WP1 project has been the User:WP_1.0_bot. First written in Perl by User:CBM and then slighly modified and maintained by a few other volunteers. In 2020 the bot has been totally rewritten in Python following modern development standards (API, automated tests, etc.) by User:Audiodude. The code base is available en developed on Github.

The WP1bot had and still have three traditional purposes:

  • gather assessments (via categories introduced on main namespace articles talk pages),
  • upload on Misplaced Pages logs & stats
  • provide key information & tools to Wikiproject on a dedicated Web service. The data can also be accessed through an API at api.wp1.openzim.org

Select article titles

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Select article revision

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Scrape selected articles for offline usage

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Orchestrate periodic and multiple scraping

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Publish and distribute offline snapshots

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Statistics

The WP 1.0 bot tracks assessment data (article quality and importance data for individual WikiProjects) assigned via Talk page banners. If you would like to add a new WikiProject to the bot's list, please read the instructions at Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot.

The global summary table below is computed by taking the highest quality and importance rating for each assessed article in the main namespace.

All rated articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low ??? Total
FA 1,585 2,522 2,424 1,978 185 8,694
FL 180 702 773 695 100 2,450
A 372 684 789 581 92 2,518
GA 3,271 7,443 14,918 19,964 1,787 47,383
B 17,187 33,318 55,162 71,458 23,737 200,862
C 17,184 54,959 137,609 319,234 93,224 622,210
Start 18,547 93,156 419,842 1,653,292 416,114 2,600,951
Stub 4,257 31,311 277,254 2,813,916 760,013 3,886,751
List 4,950 17,480 54,862 203,942 81,963 363,197
Assessed 67,533 241,575 963,633 5,085,060 1,377,215 7,735,016
Unassessed 113 411 969 16,466 391,417 409,376
Total 67,646 241,986 964,602 5,101,526 1,768,632 8,144,392
About this table

Related pages

General

Assessment and validation

Misplaced Pages books

  • Misplaced Pages:Books & meta:WikiReader - Misplaced Pages books are collections of articles from Misplaced Pages on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form.
  • The Book Tool, and Wiki to print, a collaboration between the Foundation and OSI/PediaPress.

Article selections

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