1. Wikipedia
Largest Open Content Encyclopedia
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2. Introduction
Wikipedia is multi-lingual web-based open knowledge encyclopedia.
On which, everyone can write new article and edit on the existing.
Currently it has 30 millions articles.
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Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched In Jan 15 2001
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It is available in 287 languages across the world including 5 Nepali
languages i.e. Nepali, Nepal Bhasa, Bhojpuri, Pali, sanskrit.
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Has given individual web address usually beginning with the 2/3
character ISO code of the language.
(e.g. ne.wikipedia.org(नेपाली); new.wikipedia.org(नेवारी)
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In Pipeline Maithili, Tharu, Tamang, Gurung, Limbu, Sherpa, Awadhi,
Lepcha (These are in incubation)
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3. Open Content
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Wikipedia is the world largest open content repository
Open Content
According to Open Definition
“Any content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute
it- Subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or sharealike” ”

4. What is Wikipedia?
5+ Nepali
languages
~12 billion articles
read per month
6th most popular
website on earth
500 million unique visitors;
2 million come from Nepal

5. Who edits Wikipedia?
Professors
Students
Everything on Wikipedia
has been written by
people like
you & me!
fessionals
Pro
Amatures

6. Five Pillars of Wikipedia?
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Wikipedia is Encyclopedia
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Wikipedia is written by neutral point of view
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Wikipedia is free/open content that anyone can edit, modify and distribute
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Editors should treat each other with respect
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Wikipedia doesn't have any firm rules.

7. How everybody can edit Wiki pages?
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Every individual can edit Wikipedia articles or write new articles.
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One can edit or write by logging in or without logging in.
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If you log-in with your username and password, the record log of your
edit is maintained and the number of your edit goes increasing after
every edit.
If you edit without logging in, Wikipedia maintains logs of your edits by
your IP address.
The Edit record can be viewed by clicking in View History (इतितिहास हेने)
link.

8. Page and edit log in Wikipedia

9. What to Write about?
- In any language Wikipedia people can write about any
useful topic.
- You can write about Plants, Animals, Your place, Celebrities,
Your role model, History, Geography, Economics, Science,
Environment, Culture, food stuff etc.
The following are NOT allowed in Wikipedia
- Your autobiography, Opinion, Business promotion.
- While writing article in new topic, you should be sure that
there is no other article on the same or similar subject.
- Your topic has importance and worthy to read.
- Your article should tell about why the subject is important in
the first para after the introduction to the topic.

10. Take the following things into
consideration
• Write the subject clearly.
• Cite sources (Newspapers, magazine, books, journals
etc.)
• Categorize the article
• Respect Copyright
• Most Materials published in books, newspapers or online
are copyrighted. You cannot copy Paste in Wikipedia.
You should re-write the paragraphs and should quote the
source where you’ve taken it.

11. Why do people edit Wikipedia?
Love to share
knowledge
Love
Love to preserve
& celebrate their
language &
culture
Love for a subject
area
Love to write
Love to
collaborate

12. What’s in it for you?
Improve your
writing skills
Improve your
critical thinking
Lean how to
collaborate
Get global
audience
Preserve your
language & culture
Improve your
research skills
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13. Thank You!
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