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WIKIPEDIAImagine a world in which every single person is given
free access to the sum of all human knowledge…
AJENDA
• Quick Intro• What is Wikipedia?• BFT
[ Business, Functionality , Technology ]• FAB
[ Features, Advantages, Benefits ]• PPF
[ Past, Present, Future ]• Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
• The latest generation of collaborative Web-based tools, namely wikis, blogs and more, offer many unique and powerful information sharing and collaboration features.
• They also have the added advantage of taking the technical skill out of these features, allowing users to focus on the information and collaborative tasks themselves.
• Wikis, blogs and photoblogs carry the potential of complementing, improving and adding new collaborative dimensions to the many Web-based education,.
What is Wikipedia? “The Free Encyclopedia”
• a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project
• Wiki+ (encyclo)Pedia = Wikipedia
• Not only a community-developed encyclopedia, a well-linked Web site, (boosts Google rankings)
What is Wikipedia? “The Free Encyclopedia”
• A Collaborative Dictionary.
• Everyone becomes an author, an editor, and a publisher.
• Web site allows (add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some content, sometimes without registration. )
BUSINESS
• Non-profit foundation• 10,265,335 registered users,
including 1,673 administrators
• Aims to distribute a free encyclopedia to every
• Funded by public donations
• Applying for grants
BUSINESS
• One of the largest reference web sites (Top 10 in Google)
• Attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009
• More than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 13,000,000 articles
• More than 260 languages
• 2,987,097 and more articles, 17,648,485 pages
FUNCTIONALITIES
• A wiki page starts more or less empty
• Wiki pages are connected by internal hyperlinks,
• And every page should be connected
• No ownership of wiki content – anyone can work on any page
• Apache/PHP webservers in the middle
• Database backend (MySql)
TECHNOLOGY
• Wikipedia is running MediaWiki version 1.16 alpha-wmf(r54535 ).
• Type WikiLicenseGPLv2+
• Website mediawiki.org(English)
• Available in over 300 languages
FEATURES
– Editing features (simple markup)
– Quality control features (versioning, recent changes
– Organisational features (categories…)
FEATURES
• Scalable and multilingual
• Community features (talk pages, user pages, access levels)
• Other features (page protection…)
ADVANTAGES
• Multilingualism/multiculturalism• Amazing size• It’s remarkably good
– Easy to create– Provides high-profile information (Google-friendly)– Allows community to enhance &
develop content
ADVANTAGES
• Free access (if you have the internet)
• Fundamental change to information production, distribution , and authority
• Freedom to:
-copy
-modify
BENIFITS• provide clear benefits to colleges and schools
– Wikis can make it easier for students to create Web content, avoiding complexities of CMSs
– Lecture notes– Tutorial activities– Student journals– Latest news– Wikiquizzes
BENIFITS
• Flexible governance
• Freedom in the sense of GNU
• Collaborative software which respects the users
• Open and free
PAST
• Wikipedia was launched on its own domain, wikipedia.com, on January 15 2001
• Until 2001 wikis were virtually unknown outside of the restricted circles of computer programmers
• Wikipedia was originally conceived as a complement to Nupedia, a free on-line encyclopedia founded by Jimmy Wales
PRESENT
• English Wikipedia larger than Britannica and Microsoft Encarta combined
• German >220,000 article
• Japanese > 110,000 articles
• French >100,000 articles
• Swedish > 71,000 articles
• Nearly 10 million across 260 languages
FUTURE
• Uniform– (many) topics are incomplete, unclear,
and possibly wrong– (many other) topics are well
explained, illustrated, referenced
• Uniformly reviewed– some articles get more attention than
others
FUTURE
• Finished
– Wikipedia articles can always change
• Complete
– There’s always something else to add!
CONCLUSIONS
• Wikipedia is Community
• Wikipedia is most useful as a quick and simple way to find basic reference information. It will never be a source of primary literature.
• Wikipedia is, by and large, accurate most of the time. However, until some formal validation process is introduced, the information can not be considered 100% reliable.