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Embracing Wikipedia:More than a research tool
Sept 2009Jay Walsh, Head of Communications
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Ahead
A little about Wikipedia
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Awareness and reality
Is Wikipedia news?
Find the story
Best practices
your presenter
Me
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that runs Wikipedia.
The Free Encyclopedia
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Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in history:
2 billion+ words
14 million+ articles
4 million+ images
250+ languages
5th most visited website (comScore June 2009)
La enciclopedia libre
Die freie Enzyklopädie
Wolna encyklopedia
De vrije encyclopedie
الموسوعة الحرة
L'encyclopédie libre Свободная энциклопедия
维基百科
フリー百科事典
L’enciclopedia libera
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Wikipedia Global Traffic
Source: comScore
Select information sites, monthly unique visitors
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Wikipedia as platform
Five Pillars
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia has a neutral point of view
Wikipedia is free content
Wikipedia has a code of conduct
Wikipedia does not have firm rules
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Wikipedia as platform
"Wikipedia's present power structure is a mix of anarchic, despotic, democratic, republican, meritocratic, plutocratic, and technocratic elements."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Power_structure
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Common questions
Do we control search (google) prominence?
Is anyone paid to edit?
Who takes responsibility? Who is in charge?
Who pays for this?
Wikipedia as the journalist’s friend
real-time knowledge
free resources
dramatic depth
stories within the stories
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[Citation needed]
If you use content from Wikipedia, you may need to cite it.
All text, CC-BY-SAcreative commonsBY (cite author/s)Share alike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses
Images, may be CC-BY-SAPublic domain (PD)GFDLCopyright / fair useClick the image, read carefully
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Wikipedia as platform
Caveats
Eternal memory
Ultimate transparency
Active and defensive editors who are linked by common principles and beliefs.
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Finding story in WP
Start in the ‘talk’ or ‘discussion’ page
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‘history’ is where the real story happens
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‘history’ is where the real story happens
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Wikipedia and best practices
No one is ‘excluded’ from editing in Wikipedia.
No one is excluded from being banned or reverted.
No one is truly in total control of the platform.
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Is Wikipedia news?
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