Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all
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Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all
Teemu Leinonen
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
wiki
- World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be modified or contributed to by users.
(Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Wikipedia - the world most famous wiki
How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?
How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?
• Word largest encyclopedia – ever!• 270+ languages• 20 000 000+ articles
• English: 3 800 000 • FI: 280 000 / SV: 420 000 / ET: 90 000
• One of the world’s top 10 websites• English Wikipedia over 130 000 active users.
• FI: 1900• English Wikipedia 1500 Administrators
• FI: 50
(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2012)
How wikipedia works?
Demo: edit, reference, view history, talk –pages . . .
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
Wikimedia
Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the languages of the world
Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from famous people, books and speeches
Wikibooks - a collection of free study and textbooks
Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content
Wikispecies - directory of the world species
Wikinews – free news service
Wikimedia Commons - collection of free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media
Wikiversity – a site for learning materials and learning communities
http://www.wikimedia.org
Why these projects?
Wikispecies - directory of the world species
Why not a directory of the puppets of the Muppet Show?
Why?
Editorial decisions
Mission
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.
Vision
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge.
That's our commitment.
Why Wikimedia is important?
Lack of media (access to media)
= lack of education
= many things that are not nice
(like: poverty, wars, no respect of human rights, crimes, abuse, civil conflicts, lack of democracy
etc.)
Strict commitment to . . .
free content,
free standards,
and
free software.
Why?
Read the Mission and Vision
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
Could there be“education for all wiki”?
Wikiversity
Learning: Time and Space
Same Time Different Time
Same Space
Class-room teaching, class-room discussions
Library delivery of study books, bulletin board, handouts
Different Space
Video conference, chat
Self-study
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki 4. Epilogue
1. Wiki2. Wikimedia for all 3. Education for all wiki4. Epilogue
Think Linux
Source: Engeström, J. 2005 / 2006
Think Wikipedia
Think Skype
Think Blogs
All these are projects started by individuals
in the open and free Internet.
Kiitos