Forum:Aspects of the community

Hey all, I am an editor from en.wikipedia and found this page via the New York Times website. I think this is a very interesting idea and would like to contribute with some suggestions. The wikipedia community is vast and within it there exist a variety a sub-groups that are worthy of note. There are 4 types of accounts on wikipedia, no account, user, admin, and bureaucrat. The latter two are community elected positions given only to users who have demonstrated that they are deserving of the community's trust. Requests for adminship, featured article review, articles for deletion, the village pump, the administrator's noticeboard, featured image review, wikiprojects (wikiproject mathematics is particularly active), the mediation committee, the arbitration committee, the wikipedia mailing list, and the irc chat forums are some of the most active sub-communities. There have also been edit-wars on wikipedia, some of which are worthy of note simply because of their absurd nature. Userpages and user-user interactions are also worthy of note, because these are the discussions that drive the 'pedia. Each article has a discussion pages and these are very useful in article improvement. That's about all I can think of off hand. I am Cronholm144 on wikipedia and you can E-mail me at Cronholm@usc.edu, Cheers and good luck--22:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)