Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all

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Teemu Leinonen

1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue

- World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be modified or contributed to by users.

(Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Wikipedia - the world most famous wiki

How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?

How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?

• Word largest encyclopedia – ever!• 270+ languages• 20 000 000+ articles

• English: 3 800 000 • FI: 280 000 / SV: 420 000 / ET: 90 000

• One of the world’s top 10 websites• English Wikipedia over 130 000 active users.

• FI: 1900• English Wikipedia 1500 Administrators

• FI: 50

(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2012)

How wikipedia works?

Demo: edit, reference, view history, talk –pages . . .

1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue

Wikimedia

Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the languages of the world

Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from famous people, books and speeches

Wikibooks - a collection of free study and textbooks

Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content

Wikispecies - directory of the world species

Wikinews – free news service

Wikimedia Commons - collection of free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media

Wikiversity – a site for learning materials and learning communities

http://www.wikimedia.org

Why these projects?

Wikispecies - directory of the world species

Why not a directory of the puppets of the Muppet Show?

Editorial decisions

Mission

The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.

Vision

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the

sum of all knowledge.

That's our commitment.

Why Wikimedia is important?

Lack of media (access to media)

= lack of education

= many things that are not nice

(like: poverty, wars, no respect of human rights, crimes, abuse, civil conflicts, lack of democracy

Strict commitment to . . .

free content,

free standards,

free software.

Read the Mission and Vision

Could there be“education for all wiki”?

Wikiversity

Learning: Time and Space

Same Time Different Time

Same Space

Class-room teaching, class-room discussions

Library delivery of study books, bulletin board, handouts

Different Space

Video conference, chat

Self-study

1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki4. Epilogue

Think Linux

Source: Engeström, J. 2005 / 2006

Think Wikipedia

Think Skype

Think Blogs

All these are projects started by individuals

in the open and free Internet.

Kiitos