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How can you helpWIKIPEDIAIntroduction to Contributing to
Wikipedia
Srikanth L(User:Logicwiki)
Barcamp Chennai 4 - 27 Jun 2010
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Introduction
Do I need to Introduce wikipedia ?
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Introduction
Do I need to Introduce wikipedia ? How many of you have contributed to wikipedia?
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Introduction
Do I need to Introduce wikipedia ? How many of you have contributed to wikipedia?
Wikipedia in India
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Introduction
Do I need to Introduce wikipedia ? How many of you have contributed to wikipedia? Wikipedia in India
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Introduction
Do I need to Introduce wikipedia ? How many of you have contributed to wikipedia? Wikipedia in India / / / Need for growth on Indian (& Indic) content in
WP
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Ways to Help
Using it (Most of you here already do)
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Ways to Help
Using it (Most of you here already do) Contributing content
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Ways to Help
Using it (Most of you here already do) Contributing content
Contributing code / Technical contributions{{Geeks}}
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Ways to Help
Using it (Most of you here already do) Contributing content Contributing code / Technical contributions {{Geeks}} Spreading the word -- Advocacy
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Ways to Help
Using it (Most of you here already do) Contributing content Contributing code / Technical contributions {{Geeks}} Spreading the word -- Advocacy Fund wikimedia through donations.
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Contributing Content
Editing / Creating articles / Translation Popular myths
o I cannot create new articles in wikipedia.o Editing is too technicalo Editing is TOUGH.
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Contributing Content
Editing / Creating articles / Translation Images / Illustrations / Maps. ( Photographers
smile please :D)o Please license at least some of your work under Creative Commons license.o Please consider donating few of your works to Commons / wikipedia.
o Thanks to TKF, WP:WTCI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chennai_suburban_rail_and_bus_interconnectivity_map.pnghttp://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCIhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chennai_suburban_rail_and_bus_interconnectivity_map.png8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Contributing Content
Editing / Creating articles / Translation Images. ( Photographers smile please :D) Thanks to
TKF WP:WTCI Counter vandalism / Help protecting sanity by
participating in discussions / process changes
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Contributing Content
Editing / Creating articles / Translation Images. ( Photographers smile please :D) Thanks to
TKF WP:WTCI Counter vandalism / Help protecting sanity by participating in
discussions / process changes Minor edit contributions
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCIhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCI8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Contributing Content
Editing / Creating articles / Translation Images. ( Photographers smile please :D) Thanks to
TKF WP:WTCI Counter vandalism / Help protecting sanity by participating in
discussions / process changes Minor edit contributions Create an audio article for accessibility
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCIhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikipedia%3AWTCI8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Contributing Code
Mediawiki Developmenthttp://www.mediawiki.org/
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Contributing Code
Mediawiki Development Wikipedia Bots
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Contributing Code
Mediawiki Development Wikipedia Bots
Toolserver utils, AWB, Wikicleaner and desktoptools https://wiki.toolserver.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/autowikibrowser/-- C# based special browser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_tools
https://wiki.toolserver.org/http://goog_1018530663/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_toolshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_toolshttp://goog_1018530663/https://wiki.toolserver.org/8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Contributing Code
Mediawiki Development Wikipedia Bots Toolserver utils, AWB, Wikicleaner and desktop tools Statistical Analysis
http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis/
http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis/http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis/http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis/http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis/8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Contributing Code
Mediawiki Development Wikipedia Bots Toolserver utils, AWB, Wikicleaner and desktop tools Statistical Analysis Tools for indic languages.
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Rules of the game
Wikipedia is driven by policies and wiki cultureo Its a truely diverse entity with immense freedom to
everyone for improving it.
R l f h
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Rules of the game
Wikipedia is driven by policies and wiki culture Five Pillars of wikipedia
ENCYCLOPEDIA
NPOV , REF, NO ORCOPYRIGHTSCIVILITY
BREAK THE RULES
C i C ll b i
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Community Collaboration
WikiProjects / Workgroup - Goals / FA / GA / recognisedcontent. Case study WP:INDIA
C it C ll b ti
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Community Collaboration
WikiProjects / Workgroup - Goals / FA / GA / recognised content. Case studyWP:INDIA
Wikimedia India Chapter (In the process of formation)o https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
C it C ll b ti
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l8/3/2019 How You Can Help Wikipedia
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Community Collaboration
WikiProjects / Workgroup - Goals / FA / GA / recognised content. Case studyWP:INDIA
Wikimedia India Chapter EN Wikipedia India Noticeboard / Mentors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:INB
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Community Collaboration
WikiProjects / Workgroup - Goals / FA / GA / recognised content. Case studyWP:INDIA
Wikimedia India Chapter EN Wikipedia India Noticeboard / Mentors Key links
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAo http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India
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Questions
?
Thank you
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Thank you
Thank you, see you at wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki
The wikipedia logo used in this presentation is taken from en.wikipedia.org. This
presentation is licensed under Creative Commons.
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