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COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE

CREATOR

Presentation By

Suraj Sharma

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COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE«««?

´ Collaborative knowledge is a measure of the collaborative ability of a groupor entity knowledge derived from collaborative efforts.

´ A Situation

- in which particular forms of interaction among people are expected tooccur which would trigger learning mechanism, but there is no guaranteethat the expected interactions will actually occur.

- is termed collaborative if peers are more or less at the same level, canperform the same actions, have a common goal and work together

¶doing something together·.

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COLLABORATIVE WRITING

´ Projects where written works are

created by multiple people

together (collaboratively) ratherthan individually. Some projects

are overseen by an editor or

editorial team, but many grow

without any of this top-down

oversight.

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GROUP COLLABORATION

Tools for groups of people or organization to share info and coordinateactivities

-IBM Lotus Notes---- The first commercially successful groupcollaboration tools

-Member and email list management, a shared address book, sharedcalendar, project/task management, a shared file system, and toolsfor online collaborative doc creation such as wikis, blogs, discussionsboards, etc.

Online group collaborations

-Yahoo! Group, AOL and Microsoft offer online group solutions.

-New start ups Wiggio and AirSet with newer browser technologies likeAjax

-Wikis :- one of the major innovations in group collaboration

The most representative example in the public domain.

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WIKIPEDIA

´ An online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone

and that aims to provide free encyclopedic informationto its readers.

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HISTORY

´ Formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry

Sanger.

´ Initially it was created as a complement to the expert-written English-

language encyclopedia project ¶Nupedia· (a web-advertising ²selling)

in order to provide an additional source of draft articles and ideas.

´ Later It overtook Nupedia, growing to become a large global project,

and originating a wide range of additional reference projects.

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THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION, INC.

´ A non-profit charitable organization HQ in San Francisco,

California ,USA.

´ The creation of the foundation was officially announced on

June,2003.

´ Goal :- To develop and maintain open content, wiki-based

projects and to provide the full contents of those projects to the

public free of charge.

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WIKIPEDIA NOW««´ Includes over 14 million freely

usable articles in hundreds of 

languages worldwide and

content from millions of 

contributors.

´ English- Wikipedia has

3,066,299 Articles

17,283,217 Pages in total

340,911,603 Edits

863,325 uploaded files

10776,907 Registered Users

1,689 Admins

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WHO CAN EDIT«?

´ Anyone with internet accesscan write and make changesto wiki articles

´ No specialized qualificationsis needed to contribute

´ Create an Account to log in,

if you do not want your IPaddress to be recordedpublicly in the Page·s edithistory.

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 ADMINISTRATION AND

MANAGEMENT

´ The Wikipedia community is largely self-organizing 

´ Editors are to able to watch pages and techies can writeediting programs to keep track of or rectify bad edits.

´ Over 1,500 administrators with special powers ensure that

behavior conforms to Wikipedia guidelines and policies.

´ Arbitration Committee

´ Bureaucrats

´ Stewards

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THE BEST USE OF WIKIPEDIA

´ Exploring Wikipedia

´ Basic navigation in Wikipedia

-Wikipedia articles are all linked, or

cross-referenced.

´ Using Wikipedia as a research tool

-Articles are never complete. They are

continually edited and improved over

time. This results in quality and a

growing consensus over a neutral

representation of information.

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H ANDLING DISPUTES

´ Intentional vandalism can be

reported and corrected by

anyone at Wikipedia:

Vandalism

´ Unresolved disputes between

editors, can be addressed

through the talk page or

dispute resolution process

´ Village Pump ² the Wikipedia

discussion area, part of the

community portal.

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FUNDING

´ In 2002, the end of funding from Bomis

´ Jimmy Wales confirms Wikipedia would never run commercial

advertising.´ The Wikimedia Foundation relies on public contributions and

grants to fund its mission.

´ It is exempt from federal income tax and from state income tax.

´ Dependent mostly on donations and alternate means such asgrants, sponsorship, services and brand merchandising.

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BLOCKING OF WIKIPEDIA

´ Blocked on some occasions by national authorities

´ China, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Syria, Thailand, and

Tunisia.

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