How You Can Help Wikipedia

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How can you helpWIKIPEDIAIntroduction to Contributing to

Wikipedia

Srikanth L(User:Logicwiki)

Barcamp Chennai 4 - 27 Jun 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Logicwiki


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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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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.png


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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
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%3AWTCI


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TKF WP:WTCI Counter vandalism / Help protecting sanity by participating in

discussions / process changes Minor edit contributions


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TKF WP:WTCI Counter vandalism / Help protecting sanity by participating in

discussions / process changes Minor edit contributions Create an audio article for accessibility


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Contributing Code

Mediawiki Developmenthttp://www.mediawiki.org/
http://www.mediawiki.org/http://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/


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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/


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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.

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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

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Community Collaboration

WikiProjects / Workgroup - Goals / FA / GA / recognisedcontent. Case study WP:INDIA

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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

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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-l


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Wikimedia India Chapter EN Wikipedia India Noticeboard / Mentors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:INB

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:INBhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:INB


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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indiahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: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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