A presentation that covers the various wikimedia sites, the world of wikis, the good and bad uses of wikipedia

2. Wikis
Eric Hansen | ethansen@gmail.com

3. Outline
Wikinition
Wikimania
Wikingenious
Wikinonos
This is a huge part of the explosion of content. We previously explored the world of social
networks where the content primarily focuses on, and is organized around, the individual.
The communities on social networks are similar focused on the individuals within that group.
Wikis are another powerful community platform, but the most clear dierence to me is the
focus and organization around the content and information, not the individual. But, like
social networks, the wiki is primarily build by individuals.

4. Wikinition

5. The open encyclopedia that anyone can edit (unless the page is locked)

6. Wikipedia
Started in 2001
10M+ pages
260 languages
Maintained by 75K+ volunteers
23 employees
Funded mostly by donations / grants

7. English Articles

8. Open content dictionary

9. Quotations

10. For free textbooks and manuals

11. The free library that anyone can improve

12. Free news source that anyone can write

13. A database of 4,101,851 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

14. Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria,
Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 178,666 taxonomic entries.

15. Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning
projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to
university, including professional training and informal learning. We invite teachers, students,
and researchers to join us in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning
communities. To learn more, try a guided tour or start editing now.

16. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is
now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many
other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
Use the links below to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into
other languages, but the primary documentation language is English.
For general questions about MediaWiki see the communication page. If you have a question
about this wiki, please visit the forum.

17. MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is
now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many
other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
Use the links below to explore the site contents. You'll find some content translated into
other languages, but the primary documentation language is English.
For general questions about MediaWiki see the communication page. If you have a question
about this wiki, please visit the forum.

18. Wikimania

19. Share what you know and write a knol. Google

20. Squidoo is a hand-built collection of nearly 900,000 pages built by people just like you.
Squidoo is about giving you a free, easy place to set up a page online. About anything you're
interested in.
Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.
And Squidoo raises big money for charity every single day by donating money from the ads
and links you see on every page.
If you spend just two more minutes reading this page, we'll tell you what you need to know
about us.
Thanks for visiting.

21. Wapedia brings the contents of Wikipedia to mobile phones and other mobile devices.
Wapedia has been serving mobile versions of Wikipedia since 2004. With unrivaled rendering
speed and layout tailored to 1000s of devices in 100s of countries, it has since become one
of the most popular ways to access Wikipedia on the go.
Features:
* Fast searching of Wikipedia
* Fast loading of long articles, even on 2G networks
* Share articles eortlessly with friends
* Images scaled to perfectly fit small displays
* Beautiful image rendering
* Access Search over 140 local language versions of Wikipedia
* Customization including font size, number of search results and much more
* Even very old devices with blackwhite display are supported
* Users can configure the size of images and other options

22. Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world
3,799,375 definitions written since 1999

23. “
... could become as important a journalistic tool
as the Freedom of Information Act.
„
— Time Magazine
Wikileaks
global defense of sources and press freedoms, circa now—
Saturday 14 March, 2009
Have documents the world needs to see?
We help you safely get the truth out.
We are of assistance to peoples of all countries who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their
governments and institutions. We aim for maximum political impact...(more)

24. Wikispecies is an open, free directory of species. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria,
Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life. So far we have 178,666 taxonomic entries.

25. WikiTree is not just a collaborative family history website. This is a world history project that
grows out from individuals and the people, places, and things that we care about.

26. Welcome to the community wiki for Davis, California, USA! This project is an interconnected
community eort to explore, discuss and compile anything and everything about Davis —
especially the little, enjoyable things. This entire site is maintained by the people who use it:
Everyone can edit this website!

27. Welcome to Oberwiki,
a cooperative web site about Oberlin that anyone can edit!

28. LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any
song, from any artist, without being hammered by invasive ads.

29. Welcome to Fan History! A fan run wiki that anyone can edit! (Provided you follow the rules.)
Fan History is dedicated to documenting the history of fandom. What parts of fandom are
covered? See our fandom index below. Fan History is special, at least compared to other
wikis. We have no notability requirement. Why? Because everything matters when trying to
put together the full picture of what is going on in fandom. What little name authors are
doing can help demonstrate larger trends that might not otherwise show up. We'd love for
you to be involved with our project. No edit is too small. Still have questions? Ask them on
our forums.

30. Welcome to Fan History! A fan run wiki that anyone can edit! (Provided you follow the rules.)
Fan History is dedicated to documenting the history of fandom. What parts of fandom are
covered? See our fandom index below. Fan History is special, at least compared to other
wikis. We have no notability requirement. Why? Because everything matters when trying to
put together the full picture of what is going on in fandom. What little name authors are
doing can help demonstrate larger trends that might not otherwise show up. We'd love for
you to be involved with our project. No edit is too small. Still have questions? Ask them on
our forums.

31. The Proteins wiki is intended as a community-moderated encyclopedia for proteins, with an
emphasis on function and structure. Editors are invited to upload verifiable, but not
necessarily published information about proteins and protein methods. Citation of published
scientific literature and external links to other scientific databases are encouraged wherever
possible.

32. The Bible Wiki is an on-going project to build a user-created free scholarly commentary to
the entire text of the Christian Bible.

33. Welcome to the Kidpedia, the soon to be best encyclopedia on the internet written by kids,
for kids! The 5th graders at Mattawan Later Elementary are busy preparing their articles and
entries for you, so stop back anytime to see the progress they've made!

34. Find, post, and edit the facts and photos here on your favorite structures of all kinds,
anywhere, from your own cottage to the latest skyscraper to your nation's capitol.

35. With this wiki, we are hoping to have one place where people can go to browse through
vintage patterns and find
* links to sellers who have particular patterns in stock
* reviews by people who have made the patterns
* links to blog posts about particular patterns
* a wishlist of people who want to buy or trade particular patterns
* searchable 'tags' on patterns (like 'cocktail', 'wrap dress', 'peter pan collar' or whatever).
PLEASE only create articles for OUT OF PRINT patterns: roughly pre-1980.

36. Wikianswers is a site where you can ask questions and give answers. We're aiming to create
the best answer to any question.

37. Yahoo answers

38. Ask MetaFilter

39. Mahalo Answers

40. wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to
manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people
by oering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 52,094
articles — written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join us by writing
on a topic not yet covered, or editing an article that someone else has started.

41. Wikevent is a project to create a worldwide, Free (as in quot;free speechquot;) compendium of public
events like concerts, lectures, parties, classes, sporting events, and every other sort of event
which you can think of. Please jump in and start editing.

42. Welcome to WoWWiki
the free Warcraft universe info source anyone can edit

43. Welcome to the Homestar Runner Wiki, the Homestar Runner knowledge base that anyone
can edit.
We're currently working on 2,337 articles about our favorite Internet cartoon.

44. Episode guide for the jordan jesse go! podcast

45. This is where you'll find pages for all the TWiT shows, a FAQ with basic information about the
network, pages about our community, and more. The content here is generated both by TWiT
Sta and the TWiT community. Please help us make this site more useful! Anyone can modify
the site - look for an edit button and dig right in!

46. Wookieepedia
65,353 articles since March 4, 2005
The Star Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
en · de · es · fi · fr · nl · pl · ru · more
Warning: this wiki contains spoilers.

47. Replacement for
Printed Encyclopedia

48. Replacement for
Printed Encyclopedia

49. Replacement for
Text/Reference Books

50. Replacement for
Community /
Organizational Manuals

53. Replacement for
Microsoft Office

56. Project Collaboration /
Content Management

65. Wikingenious

66. Avenue A | Razorfish
Est. 500k+ pageviews, 50k+ edits, over 90% of employees have logged in, 7k+ pages

67. Avenue A | Razorfish
Est. 500k+ pageviews, 50k+ edits, over 90% of employees have logged in, 7k+ pages

69. mission context: market your value
Copyright 2008 Lockheed Martin Corporation. All rights reserved.
How did we apply Web 2.0 in the context of mission success?
4) Context – Market Your Value
a) Yesterday = White Pages, Today = Personal Space
b) Provide your perspective, join the diversity of thought

70. mission context: create living documentation
Copyright 2008 Lockheed Martin Corporation. All rights reserved.
How did we apply Web 2.0 in the context of mission success?
4) Context – Create Living Documentation
a)

71. mission context: surface opinions, build consensus, find answers
Copyright 2008 Lockheed Martin Corporation. All rights reserved.

72. mission context: publish organizational news
Copyright 2008 Lockheed Martin Corporation. All rights reserved.

73. Wikinonos

78. Thank You

79. Video/ Photo Credits
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WPsize.png
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahansell/434333724/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggplant/516869432/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/myeye/2356405417/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulk/318302212/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/omegatron/666450803
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/9440927@N03/3240202193/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/basel/105997652/
• http://graphjam.com/2008/11/13/song-chart-memes-getting-through-medical-school/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGujMdZIpnI
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgHE5nEq04
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/northbaywanderer/121971388/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/3051956587/