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2. T Shrinivasantshrinivasan@gmail.comGNU/Linux EvangalistEditor : http://Kaniyam.comCo-ordinator : http://ilugc.inPublisher : http://FreeTamilEbooks.comBlogger : http://Goinggnu.wordpress.comCoder : http://github.com/tshrinivasanPhotographer : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Tshrinivasan 3. Imagine a world in which every singlehuman being can freely share in the sum ofall knowledge.- Wikimedias vision statement 4. History 5. Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia Can be edited by anyone Aims to provide free encyclopedic information Launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Walesand Larry Sanger The concept of a free online encyclopediaoriginally came from Richard Stallman.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia 6. Jimmy Wales 7. inter-languagelinks 8. Wikimedia is globalWikimedia chapters, 2013 (dark blue = founded) 9. What is Wikimedia?12 projects280 languages25 million Wikipedia articles18 million media files 100,000 active editors 100s of local meetup groups 38 local/national level chapters 150 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in 2011-12) 500,000,000 readers 10. How to Edit? 11. History of an article 12. compareDate of editusernameTheir other contributionsEdit summaryRevision of an article one edit 13. Becoming an editor 14. saving an edit 15. Add a reference 16. 5 Pillars 17. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 1Wikipedia is anencyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 18. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 2Wikipedia hasa neutral pointof viewhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 19. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 3Wikipedia isfree contenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 20. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 4Wikipedia hasa code ofconducthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 21. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 5Wikipedia doesnot have firmruleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 22. Values Free [to use and reuse] Volunteer-written Supported by readers Everyone can participate Neutral, encyclopedic, factual No top down editorial control: Community curated work 23. Contribute Create Articles Update Articles Fix Spellings Add Images Add References Add News Upload Media Add meaning forWords Write Travel Guide 24. Code Contribute Create Gadgets Fix MediaWiki Write ToolsGet Grants :-) 25. Spread the News Editing is Easy Talk to Friends Train your Families 26. Donate Money 27. Pros & ConsPros:Very fast growth: Wikipedia was born in 2001 and now itcontains more than 13 million articles (EncyclopediaBritannica was first published in 1768 and has 120,000articles)The number of contributors can be potentially infiniteIts free of chargeAnyone can fix errors or update an article very quickly 28. Pros & ConsCons:Absence of a top-down planning and systematicreview processThe quality of articles varies widely and over timeModifications go directly online: vandalism andinaccurate content can stay online for a while beforeit gets detectedCoverage of topics and level of detail is not alwaysproportionate to their importance 29. Planning for the next 10 years 30. Indian Languages 31. Bridging the gender gap 32. Contributors everywhere 33. And readers, tooKenya, OLPC school project 34. Thank youT Shrinivasantshrinivasan@gmail.com