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We are publishing sets of articles in print, CD, DVD, or some combination thereof.

• FAQs
• Release Version Criteria

How you can help

We have a number of subprojects. Here are the most active.

Choose articles

• Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations – sign up as a reviewer and review articles to be included in the next release. Review groups of related articles at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations/Set Nominations
• "Selection" project – Tag articles to be included.

Improve important articles

• Core Topics, please help improve important articles.

Technical work

• Torrent Project
• m:Static version tools on meta - we need people to work on scripts, bots, etc.

Use "networking" to mobilize our existing subject specialists, often in collaboration with WP:COUNCIL.

• Work via WikiProjects
• Bot-assisted assessment work

General background

In 2003, Jimmy Wales proposed making an offline release version of Wikipedia. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving/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.

You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on the talk page.

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 a small test version (Version 0.5), with the goal of releasing larger 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.

Status

Most recent work has focused on organizing articles for Version 0.7, which we hope to release in 2008. We are now beginning to switch from manual review/selection by team members, towards bot-assisted selection based on assessment by WikiProjects.

• Version 0.5 was released on April 6, 2007. It includes 1,964 articles, as well as a GPL offline reader written by a French company (Linterweb). We have been collaborating with Wikipedia 1.0 Projects from other languages, and User:Kelson (fr) has written most of our scripts.
• Nominations are now open for the next release version, with articles being assessed by quality and importance. This release, called Version 0.7, will also include some articles chosen by a bot, after testing and development.
• The team is also assisting with the "Selection" project, which released its "2007 Wikipedia CD Selection" during early 2007.
• As of October 2007, over 900,000 articles have been assessed for the project by over 800 WikiProjects. This work continues rapid growth, and has begun to spread to other language Wikipedias. More...
• Now that lists of articles are easily available for many WikiProjects, the Work via WikiProjects is switching to a new area of work, in collaboration with WP:COUNCIL. The group will now focus on identifying, tagging and assessing important articles that lack WikiProject oversight, while continuing with its role of facilitating the introduction of assessment into new areas.

For a summary from Wikimania 2006 (August), which includes information on other languages' 1.0 projects, see /Wikimania 2006.

Wikipedia 1.0 projects

[] Active projects

Past releases

Proposed or inactive projects

• Authoritative Editions — (other names welcome :-) aims to give experts in each field the tools to review articles in their area of expertise and give their okay particular revisions as meeting their standard of judgement.

1. Allow editors to propose new groups. Ex: "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.

To be coordinated by Sj, Jeff Keller, Gnp.

• Featured Articles First — now reviewing older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Wikipedia 1.0.

• Geography project — proposes to produce essentially 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 Wikipedia 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product.

• Three Level Editing — 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.

• Biographies — improve and assess biographical articles, especially the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography.

• Dynamic Pocket Cyclopedia Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs. An evolving list of no more than half of Wikipedia’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 Wikipedia 1.0. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).

• Article assessment This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above).

Stages to publication

1. Bring our identified core topic articles (about 160) up to an agreed standard of quality. This work is coordinated through the COTF.
2. Add a further list of "key topics" which includes many more specific subjects (important historical figures, etc.), as discussed here.
3. Integrate suitable featured articles and the key quality articles identified by our contacts with WikiProjects into the core or key lists.
4. 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.).
5. Identify any possible publication problems, agree on suitable publishers, pricing, media.
6. Issue a final list of articles for publication. Ideally these would be reviewed by subject experts, and validated versions identified before publication.
7. Publish, on DVD, CD, paper or some combination.

Participants