This week, we chat with WikiProject Philosophy. Started in April 2004 by Adam Conover, the Project is home to 15,502 assessed articles, with 44 Featured articles, 2 Featured lists and 70 Good articles. In addition to 11 philosophy-related portals, the Project has some 20 Task forces. It currently has 250 participants. The Signpost interviews project members Rick Norwood and Walkinxyz.
Rick has been on Wikipedia since June 2005, and is interested in algebraic topology, 1950s science fiction, and comic strips. He says that he is a mathematician, not a philosopher, "so my editing is based on my reading". Walkinxyz has been a Wikipedian since November 2009: "I was a student of film at university, and the most interesting classes ended up in fact not being not my films classes – a lot of film theory is horribly, painfully dry – but philosophy classes, especially the ones that looked at films in terms of their contributions to philosophy. In other words, thinking of film itself as embodying "philosophy in action". People like Stanley Cavell and Stephen Mulhall have written important things about this. Aside from an interest in film, I'm interested in political philosophy, and how it relates to cultural issues. A number of my contributions to Wikipedia have drawn heavily on the ideas of people in the Frankfurt School tradition of Critical Theory, especially Nikolas Kompridis, who was a teacher of mine."
Your project has over 15,502 articles associated with it. How does the project keep all these up to standard, and what are its biggest challenges?
WikiProject Philosophy has 44 FA-class articles, 2 FLs, and 70 GA-class articles. How did your Project achieve this and how can other Projects work toward this?
Have you seen any talk-page conversations about Wikipedia articles veer off into deep discussions about philosophy? How does the project deal with editors seeking to use Wikipedia as a forum?
Does WikiProject Philosophy collaborate with other WikiProjects?
Your project has some 20 Task forces. How does the Project manage these?
Anything else to add?
Next week, we'll be heading to the crossroads of the
Pannonian Plain,
Balkans, and
Adriatic Sea. Until then, sing
Our Beautiful Homeland in the
archive.
This week, we chat with WikiProject Philosophy. Started in April 2004 by Adam Conover, the Project is home to 15,502 assessed articles, with 44 Featured articles, 2 Featured lists and 70 Good articles. In addition to 11 philosophy-related portals, the Project has some 20 Task forces. It currently has 250 participants. The Signpost interviews project members Rick Norwood and Walkinxyz.
Rick has been on Wikipedia since June 2005, and is interested in algebraic topology, 1950s science fiction, and comic strips. He says that he is a mathematician, not a philosopher, "so my editing is based on my reading". Walkinxyz has been a Wikipedian since November 2009: "I was a student of film at university, and the most interesting classes ended up in fact not being not my films classes – a lot of film theory is horribly, painfully dry – but philosophy classes, especially the ones that looked at films in terms of their contributions to philosophy. In other words, thinking of film itself as embodying "philosophy in action". People like Stanley Cavell and Stephen Mulhall have written important things about this. Aside from an interest in film, I'm interested in political philosophy, and how it relates to cultural issues. A number of my contributions to Wikipedia have drawn heavily on the ideas of people in the Frankfurt School tradition of Critical Theory, especially Nikolas Kompridis, who was a teacher of mine."
Your project has over 15,502 articles associated with it. How does the project keep all these up to standard, and what are its biggest challenges?
WikiProject Philosophy has 44 FA-class articles, 2 FLs, and 70 GA-class articles. How did your Project achieve this and how can other Projects work toward this?
Have you seen any talk-page conversations about Wikipedia articles veer off into deep discussions about philosophy? How does the project deal with editors seeking to use Wikipedia as a forum?
Does WikiProject Philosophy collaborate with other WikiProjects?
Your project has some 20 Task forces. How does the Project manage these?
Anything else to add?
Next week, we'll be heading to the crossroads of the
Pannonian Plain,
Balkans, and
Adriatic Sea. Until then, sing
Our Beautiful Homeland in the
archive.
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Wooh, philosophy! ~~ EBE123~~ talk Contribs 20:05, 27 July 2011 (UTC) reply