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Long term goal: return to featured status Article structure has been significantly changed and needs fixing and further improvement. See if anything from Italian page can be used to improve this one. Consider implementing any suggestions made by the most recent peer review, including the automated peer-review suggestions. Add demographic information from pew report [1] Stylistic problems, specifically: ...the single-sentence paragraphs, the lack of flow within paragraphs, the broken connections between paragraphs, the weak large-scale architecture in the article, the huge number of references for a paltry amount of data, the lack of distinction between important and trivial facts. Record a new audio file once it reaches FA standard Other: Is it worth having an FAQ like other heavy traffic articles? E.g. "Why should Wikipedia have an article on itself?" The "sub-articles" that were split off from this article are badly in need of attention, as are several other related articles. The following all need work: Reliability of Wikipedia Criticism of Wikipedia Wikipedia in popular culture History of Wikipedia — this one in particular is missing information and should be reorganized Can we get the first three of these into a template somehow? Many other language Wikipedia articles of questionable notability, particularly the smallest ones. A thorough going through is needed, with non-notable articles being AFD material. Images: update graph in history section, find author of Nupedia image, map in history section has issues.

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[edit] Countries

Moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Countries

[edit] Link for "volunteers"

The first paragraph says "Wikipedia's 13 million articles (3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers," and "volunteers" links to the [[Volunteer|general volunteer page]. I think it should link to the [Virtual_volunteering|virtual volunteering] page instead, since these are specifically online volunteers, rather than traditional onsite volunteers, especially since Wikipedia is one of the largest examples of virtual volunteering. Comment by: User:Jcravens42

[edit] Beta version of Wikipedia

Wikipedia article does not contain any information about the new beta feature nor any content about wikipedia's future. Wikipedia staff should do something about this.

[edit] Servers in Korea decommissioned?

According to Wikitech [2] [3] and Ganglia, there are no longer Wikipedia servers in Korea, though even Meta-Wiki hasn't been updated and there seems to be no up-to-date server layout diagram.

[edit] Lawsuits involving Wikipedia

Perhaps there should be a distinct entry about lawsuits involving Wikipedia, given that many people over the years have argued that some material on the website constitutes a liable defamation against them. Because of the rather limited jurisprudence of the Internet, many of these lawsuits have turned out to be notable in determining what does and doesn't constitute defamation. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] ADM (talk) 06:43, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hardware

IIRC, we no longer have caching servers in Korea. Might be worth checking and updating if so.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 19:14, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Usage Volumetrics

I notice that whilst this article give a good overview of Wikipedia and page volumetrics, that it is entirely silent on usage volumetrics. Adding such a topic would enrich this article. Unfortunately as far as I can see the foundation doesn't seem to publish page hit volumetrics, and if this is the case then including it in the article could be classified as original research. (I have searched the discussion archive to see if the point has been raised previously, but the nearest that I can find is Google search trends. — TerryE (talk) 12:49, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Motto

Aldough "the free encyclopedia" is a good motto, another good one could be: "providing a way to see the big picture" (eg versus what's right in front of us in society). Perhaps something could be done with this. 91.182.187.161 (talk) 12:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)