Wikipedia slide deck used at the first Good Internet conference, UC Berkeley, April 2011. Original content is licensed CC-BY 3.0.

1. 2001 news story bit.ly/AP-commercial-net

2. 2011 site rankings source: comScore Top 25 sites worldwide: GooMicroFaceYippee AmazAOLeBay……

3. 2011 site rankings source: comScore Top 25 sites worldwide: 1-4: GooMicroFaceYippee #5: Wikimedia sites 6-25: AmazAOLeBay……

4. Wikipedia Audience Compared With Other Information Sites Measured using unique visitors. Data from comScore MediaMetrix. (Global Unique Visitors, in millions of users) 2007 2008 2009 2010

8. User profile pages

9. Discussion/talk/project pages

10. Editing history view

11. Recent Changes, watch lists, user contributions

18. Feb 2011 unrest in Libya

19. Foreign Relations

20. Presently on-going (edit)-war

21. Flag and coat of arms

22. Religious / political bias?

23. History does not mention the Gulf of Sidra incidents.

24. Augment/integrate Fist Crushing a U.S. Fighter Plane statue?

27. User profile pages

28. Discussion/talk/project pages

29. Editing history view

30. Recent Changes, watch lists, user contributions

31. Open Source/free licenses Permission to build on others’ work … if I like a program…I must share it… Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. — Richard Stallman, GNU Manifesto, 1985

33. Permission to build on that work (free license)

34. Software that supports collaborative building

35. How does the rest of media work? What other efforts have been made to hold special or corporate interests at bay?

37. Required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance

38. Required honest, equitable and balanced presentation

40. promotes public broadcasting

41. created by act of Congress (1967)

42. funded by the Federal Government

43. Independent (?) commentator Jon Stewart Image credit: Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump

44. Innovative (?) entrepreneur Arianna Huffington Image credit: World Economic Forum

45. Wikipedia puts YOU in charge.

46. An opportunity A responsibility

48. Verifiable information

49. Comprehensive

50. Available free of charge

51. Open to remixing and republication

53. Personal information collection very limited

54. Content evaluated purely on its quality

57. 400 million people view its pages each month

58. 90,000 active contributors

59. Sustained by non-profit organization

60. Over $16 million raised in 2010 from small donations

61. Over 450 tenth birthday parties

63. Difficult for reader to discern good/bad content

64. Clashing values: anonymity, accountability

65. System can be “gamed”

66. (but what system can’t?)

67. From a history of Russian Wikipedia “ The increasing acceptance of Wikipedia’s reliability and legitimacy had attracted many national, political, and religious minorities to the project, who were tempted by the ability to finally tell their side of the story, or, more dangerously, to rewrite history in their favor .” — Victoria Doronina & Maryana Pinchuk, 2011 http://enwp.org/m:RuWiki_History/English

68. Number of active contributors declining

70. Expertise in different subject areas

71. Global reach (editors and readers)

72. A welcoming and productive environment

73. Becoming indispensible “ But in 2009, the Russian Wikipedia was no longer a small, intimate online community; it was a legitimate source of information for the Russian-speaking world.” — Doronina & Pinchuk, 2011

74. Strategic plan “ Wikimedia projects are among the most-visited sites in the world, however Wikimedia does not yet have a technological, operational and financial infrastructure commensurate with people’s reliance upon it.” — Wikimedia’s five year strategic plan

75. Wikimedia theory of change (from strategic plan)

76. Evolving culture “When I left [Wikipedia], it was a big village where everyone knew one another, and when I came back it was already a bustling city with its own central administration, rules, policies, law enforcement, judges, maniacs, not to mention the countless masses of honest workers.” —Dodonov, programmer from St. Petersburg

78. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums

79. Journalism

80. Government

82. More than 30 schools, 40 classes

83. More than 100 volunteer “ambassadors”

85. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

86. Palace of Versailles

88. Article history pages

89. Discussion/talk pages

90. WikiProjects (look at top of talk pages)

92. A dedicated volunteer community

94. Original author(s) must be credited (e.g. with a link)

95. Derivative works must also be CC-BY-SA

96. Three things we can do:

99. Commit to “ tinkering ” in public, sharing knowledge, building on others’ work, and seeking input.

101. Commit to “ tinkering ” in public, sharing knowledge, building on others’ work, and seeking input.

102. Commit to helping those around us (people, organizations) understand resources like Wikipedia.

104. Organization: http://wikimediafoundation.org

105. Ambassador program: http://enwp.org/WP:AMBASSADOR

106. Russian Wikipedia study: http://enwp.org/m:RuWiki_History