wikipedia: a closer look
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WIKIPEDIA
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•DO YOU FIND IT USEFUL?
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•DO YOU TRUST IT?
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• WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT COLLECTIVE
PARTICIPATION?•DO YOU BELIEVE
PEOPLE CAN LEARN BY USING
WIKIPEDIA?
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•DO YOU BELIEVE IN EDITING?
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WHAT IS WIKIPEDI
A?
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JIMBO WALESJIMMY WALES
LARRY SANGER
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• 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
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NO MARKETING
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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
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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
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THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
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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.
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WIKIMANIA• Each year, an international conference called Wikimania brings the people together who are involved in the Wikimedia organizations and projects.
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4.PROFILE PAGE & WALL•Volunteers have their own profile page• They have a wall where people leave messages that then are analysed.
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5.NEWSFEEDS•Volunteers can add sources of information, or web pages as a recommendation.•WIKIMEDIA 17.7 m pieces of freely reusable multimedia.
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HOW TO EDIT A
WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE?
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STEP 1
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STEP 2
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STEP 3
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STEP 4
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BUT…
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