WIKIPEDIA
•DO YOU FIND IT USEFUL?
•DO YOU TRUST IT?
• WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT COLLECTIVE
PARTICIPATION?•DO YOU BELIEVE
PEOPLE CAN LEARN BY USING
WIKIPEDIA?
•DO YOU BELIEVE IN EDITING?
WHAT IS WIKIPEDI
A?
JIMBO WALESJIMMY WALES
LARRY SANGER
• That sum of total human knowledge is available to everyone in their own language
• Main goal: EDTECH• (Education & Technology)
• Students learn by editing, not by reading
NO MARKETING
1. WIKIPEDIA IS A TOP TEN WEB PROPERTY
• 500 million monthly users• 21. 3 billion monthly pageviews• 30.7 million pages (in English Wikipedia alone)• 286 languages
2.THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
• Everything is edited by a community VOLUNTEERS• It contributes to the function of Wikipedia • Keeps the servers running• Supports the technology• In charge of admin and legal counsel
• IT IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE CONTENT AT ALL
THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
3.VOLUNTEERS DISCUSS ARTICLES
• The community discuss different kinds of articles
• They debate their reliability and accuracy in a very deep way
• Volunteers enforce a policy about the behaviour.
WIKIMANIA• Each year, an international conference called Wikimania brings the people together who are involved in the Wikimedia organizations and projects.
4.PROFILE PAGE & WALL•Volunteers have their own profile page• They have a wall where people leave messages that then are analysed.
5.NEWSFEEDS•Volunteers can add sources of information, or web pages as a recommendation.•WIKIMEDIA 17.7 m pieces of freely reusable multimedia.
HOW TO EDIT A
WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE?
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