Worthy of notice
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Within Wikipedia, notability determines whether a topic merits its own article. Article topics are required to be notable, or "worthy of notice."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DumbBOT/ProdSummary
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PROD
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Super big question
- What is the responsibility of web services to steward the products of participation?
- What expectations do internet users have regarding the location and stability of data online?
- How does reality of instability square with discourse of permanence?
- Downed videos
- Facebook is forever
Problems
- Wikipedia is losing editors
- Fewer editors means
- Slower growth
- Less diversity
- More bias
- Wikipedia articles are being deleted often
Big questions
- Why is Wikipedia losing editors?
- Where is the most activity on Wikipedia?
- How is WP changing over time?
- What is shrinking?
- What is growing?
- What is solid? What is stagnant?
- Connect wikiwars to Game of Life
Research questions
- Does removing popular culture articles slow new editors?
- Is the bureaucracy chilling participation?
- What specific policies?
- Notability guidelines
- What happened to the "stub"?
- How have scandals made WP gunshy?
- Conspiracy theory: newsmedia blows up the stories of cranks because of skepticism over the WP project?
- What are some characteristics of articles being deleted?
- Which WP admins are responsible?
- How have changes in WP administration changed the material shape of WP?
Methodology
- Aggregate notability deletion info
- ID WP editors most often flagging notability
- History of notability guidelines
- Interview editors who initiate notability deletions
- Interview frustrated editors who lost articles
