science museum presentation
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John Cummings
Wikimedian in Residence for the Science Museum and Natural History Museum
Educate people about Wikimedia projects
Teach people how to contribute to them
Help people to improve articles relating to the subjects the museums cover
Find ways that I can help the museum to use open knowledge projects
What is WikipediaWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia
Editable by everyone
Written collaboratively
An aggregator of open license resources
Peer reviewed
Keeps every previous version of an article
Creative Commons Attribution Share a like
Alan Turing
Information
Languages
16,760,636 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
Science Museum mission:
To make sense of the science that shapes our lives.
What does Wikimedia do?"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
Jimmy Wales
“We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.”
Clay Shirky
Wikipedia's AudienceThe largest encyclopedia ever written, available in 285 languages.
The 6th most visited website
Serves ≈500 million people each month, 21 billion page views a month (3 billion mobile) e.g LHC article is viewed 1m times a year in English and is available in 76 languages
Funded by donations and run by acharity; the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikiquote
Wikibooks
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikinews
Wikiversity
Wikimedia Commons
MediaWiki
wikimedia foundation
Who writes Wikipedia?
Everyone can edit Wikipedia
100,000 regular contributors
Some languages are very big like English, some languages are very small like Welsh
The editors have control, they were the ones who decided to turn Wikipedia off for a day
"Wikipedia doesn't work in theory, only in practice"
Who writes Wikipedia
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licenses
Mobile phones have limited screen size and ability to display media
Lack of infrastructure for laptops with or without an internet connection
Books: Transportation and storage costs can be 4x production cost
Photocopy shop
Some of the reasons organisations add content to open knowledge projects Added value of connected information and translation into other languages
Lots more people seeing the content
QRpedia
The plug
Wikipedia sessions
whenever you like
How Wikipedia works, how to edit, rules and guideline
Lets have a chat about your ideas
Wikimedia commons
The History of Wikipedia video
On demand publishing in rural Africa
Invention to keep the lions away
Wikipedia Zero
Sugata Mitra: Build a school in the cloud, TED
QRpedia.org
Michael Edson : GLAMwiki 2013
Cherry Mae: Open Access for the 3rd World
Wikimedia report card
Why Wikipedia is as important as the pyramids
Wikipedia Page views tool
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