1. WIKIPEDIA

2. •DO YOU FIND IT
USEFUL?

3. •DO YOU TRUST IT?

4. • WHAT DO YOU THINK
ABOUT COLLECTIVE
PARTICIPATION?
•DO YOU BELIEVE PEOPLE
CAN LEARN BY USING
WIKIPEDIA?

5. •DO YOU
BELIEVE IN
EDITING?

6. WHAT IS
WIKIPEDIA?

8. JIMBO WALESJIMMY
WALES
LARRY SANGER

9. • 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

10. NO MARKETING

11. 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

12. 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

13. THE WIKIMEDIA
FOUNDATION

14. 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.

15. WIKIMANIA
• Each year, an international conference called
Wikimania brings the people together who are
involved in the Wikimedia organizations and
projects.

16. 4.PROFILE PAGE & WALL
• Volunteers have their own profile page
• They have a wall where people leave messages that
then are annalised

17. 5.NEWSFEEDS
• Volunteers can add sources of information, or
web pages as a recommendation.
• WIKIMEDIA  17.7 m pieces of freely
reusable multimedia

18. HOW TO EDIT
A WIKIPEDIA
ARTICLE?

19. STEP 1

20. STEP 2

21. STEP 3

22. STEP 4

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