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Science and WikimediaMichael Peel
Jodrell Bank/Wikimedia UK22 August 2009
Wikipedia
• Largest reference site on the internet
• 3 million pages (English only)300 million edits
• 10 million editors/volunteers
• 271 editions
• Routinely first port of call for Google users
Wikipedia
• Huge numbers of articles on:
• Astronomy: >20,000 (57 “featured”)
• Biology: >20,000
• Chemistry: >10,000
• Physics: >12,000 (37 “featured”)
• etc...
Get involved!
• Continual process of improving articles, and adding new ones (around 1 per minute!)
• Anyone can edit (click on “edit”!)
• Can ask/answer questions on talk pages
• WikiProjects: groups of like-minded editors