Wikipedia talk:Version 0.5 Nominations

message: Should the review team download the most current snapshot when the nominations end? This will ensure that articles already passed do not fail (NPOV, etc). In addition, it would act like a stable version of all the articles. The nominated and passed notices would still go on the article talk pages. Eyu100 18:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The bot records the version it found on the day we passed the article, as well as the current version - I would suggest we compare these two as we compile things for publication. Does this sound OK?  As for categories - good point, I'll ask Oleg tonight. Walkerma 21:11, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes, it does sound OK. Eyu100 16:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snapshot 

message: Can someone have the bot list categories also? Eyu100 18:25, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: Where should an article be listed for review if it's suitability is questioned?  I do not think Laurence Olivier is anywhere near being a good article, let alone suitable for inclusion here.  It's very incomplete, discusses selected stage roles and almost no film roles.  It seems to have been approved by the same editor who has made most of the edits to the article itself(this edit),  which is contrary to any concept of having an article reviewed impartially. Rossrs 01:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for this, I saw your comments from the delisting.  I'm so glad to see a knowledgable critique - despite my limited knowledge I have reviewed several actors for V0.5 and I might well have missed this. I see that the article was listed by someone who is not on the review team, so that is cause enough to delist it.  However, since it is GA Collaboration of the Week, perhaps that will help fix the problems you noted - and Larry certainly is a key actor we would like to include.  Many thanks for your help! Walkerma 03:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Review of selected articles

message: One of the problems I had with Bozmo's first cut was I could not find China - it was listed as People's Republic of China. China is listed on the CD now, so that one won't be a problem, but others may. Great job guys - I am still keen on the process - how to burn my CD from my category list, with cleanups, etc. Wizzy…☎ 09:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wizzy, it seems you're a "Wiz" at the software end, and we need to make the articles searchable/findable etc.  Would you be able to help us this autumn as we turn our list of articles into a piece of plastic and a Torrent download?  Including DAB pages, redirects  - this is certainly an important part of the process.  Thanks, Walkerma 17:12, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DAB pages, redirects

message: I have created Wikipedia:Version 0.5 Nominations/Missing articles 21:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot! Should be easy to check these off now. Walkerma 22:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing articles

message: I see that the article for San Francisco, California was nomiated back in June and I assume its continued presence on this list means that no decision has yet been taken.  Not sure what the timetable for reviewing it should/will be.  In any case, I just would like to point out that the San Francisco article just became a Featured Article.--DaveOinSF 02:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, I'll tag it right now. Walkerma 02:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I should clarify, since I nominated it - as a global city, it auto-qualifies on importance, and as a new FA it qualifies on quality and is autonominated.  I have been the reviewer for all the Places FAs anyway. Walkerma 04:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Francisco 

message: There is a lot of work still left at Wikipedia:Version 0.5/To do, but I don't think we should stop this on September 30th.  We have completed most of the countries and most sections of FAs, but for balance IMHO we need more cities and biographies.  Therefore I propose we continue reviewing until we complete all outstanding general nominations, as well as all countries, all global cities, core topics and the top 200 core biographies.  I'd guess we can complete these well before the end of October, particularly if others can pitch in and each do at least a dozen more reviews.  Is this OK? Walkerma 10:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I'll concentrate on FA reviews in the next few days in order to have the full FA list included in Version 0.5. NCurse  work 10:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I finished the biographies list tonight, but I still need to add the listings.  I'll do that tomorrow, I need to get to bed! Walkerma 06:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of reviewing 

message: Right now, we put these in the miscellaneous section, but they should probably have their own section because they are very important. Also, a person looking for "Literature" would not be able to find it. There should either be a "main articles" section for each subject or an entire top-level tree containing all the other top-level trees and their main articles. Which one would work better — any thoughts? Eyu100 13:26, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like the basis of an excellent idea.  We'll have to have a thorough discussion about how we structure the final version 0.5 product - I think it will look very different!  Walkerma 17:49, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main articles of a subject (Literature: Literature, Geology and _:Geology, _) 

message: All the articles here have been reviewed. Eyu100 20:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Congratulations guys, I know you worked hard on this!! --plange 21:02, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's a big relief, thanks a lot Eyu100.  There are still lots of articles on the supplementary lists to do though!  The countries and FAs are almost done, the global cities and bios are about halfway reviewed.  Hopefully we can finish these before the end of the month. Walkerma 21:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the entries on the global cities list has now been reviewed.  I included a few Start-class, but that's because I expect a complete city article to be very extensive - these were generally articles that had good coverage of some areas but little or none of others, but the articles were still mostly long and decent in coverage.  I did reject New Delhi, but we do have a very nice Delhi article so I don't think that matters too much.  I think this list has provided a very worthwhile list, and often it's more useful to include a global city than a capital city - for example Frankfurt is much more important than Bonn.  We now have a good solid coverage of cities.  However, the result does tend to favour cities in developed countries, particularly European cities (which tend to do more international trade), so I think we should aim to include more major cities from Africa (in particular) in the next release.  One problem, though, I suspect that many of these articles may be Start-class or even stubs, based on the few African cities such as Addis Ababa that I did review.  I need to go to bed now - I will add the last few cities into the V0.5 listing tomorrow.  Then I'll finish off the countries list next week (only a few), and the Core topics review (also only a few); that leaves mainly the biographies that need work.  We're almost there! Walkerma 05:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviewing is done