Wikipedia: A Closer Look

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 annalised

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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