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Tajik WikipediaFree Encyclopedia
http://tg.wikipedia.org
Ibrahim Rustamov
Note: To view pages on the Internet properly with all Tajik letters, please use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
What is Wikipedia?• Freely licensed encyclopedia• Available in more than 100 languages
• Tajik (tg), English (en), de, fr, …• Written by volunteers• The English edition started 15/01/2001
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Tajik Wikipedia’s Main Page
Statistics
Recent changes
Reading Tajik Wikipedia
Editing Tajik Wikipedia
Editing Tajik Wikipedia - Editor
• Editing Wikipedia articles with easy to use wiki editor which supports all languages and scripts
How Wikipedia Works• Each registered user has a user page with talk page• Every page contains an “edit” link• Page history: revisions, authors, diffs• Recent changes, watched pages• Categories, what links here, …
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Wikipedia User Page
Rules• Basic rules
• Neutral Point of View (NPOV)• Citing reliable sources• Free content (GNU FDL) CC-BY-SA 3.0 License
Vandalism• Everybody can edit Wikipedia, sadly not all users create good
articles or improve existing ones• Easily reverting changes through history• Sysops
• No power, only technical measures• Deleting pages, blocking vandals, protecting pages, simplified
reverting
Administration
Official recent statistics
Tajik Wikipedia Growth Rate
January 2013: 11.000 articles
Page Views on Tajik Wikipedia
April 2008: 654.000
Growth rate, financing and participation in Wikipedia• Wikipedia projects grow very quickly• Voluntary donations, sponsoring, grants etc.• Absolutely no advertising at the moment
• Participation is free and none of Wikipedia users get paid or pay for participation
• Participation is voluntary on Wikipedia which is a platform for free learning and “networking”.
For users• Use of the encyclopedia as a free platform for learning,
creating articles and improving existing ones;• Active participation in discussions of articles, rules and
projects;• Organization of local groups of wikipedians at universities and
schools;• Initiation and participation in conferences related to Wikipedia
and related projects
Knowledge should be free…
Thank you for your attention
Ibrahim Rustamovhttp://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ibrahim