Kik irpa-20170620-wmbe-the-wikimedia-project

Wikimedia --The organisation behind Wikipedia and beyondHow Wikipedia benefits from a strong organisation.

How volunteers build upon each other.

How institutions can share knowledge and skills.

How content can be easily shared

KIK/IRPA 20 June 2017 – Sharing is Caring - Brussels ExtensionOpening up with Wikimedia

Geert Van Pamel

Wikipedian since 2005

Member of WMNL since 2012

Board member of WMBE since 2014

Contributing to OpenStreetMap since 2013

Living in Belgium (Vlaams Brabant)

President of Wikimedia Belgium

Professionally working with Geospatial and Big data systems

Developer for Open source projects (Asterisk PBX); loving Linux

CC-BY-SA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KIK-IRPA-20170620-WMBE-The-Wikimedia-project.pdf

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Mutual symbiosis --an almost living ecosystem

Organising the content

Infrastructure, content, structure, policy, procedures.

Volunteers, Organisations, Wikipedians.

Collaboration, creativity, build upon others, stronger together.

Free Licenses

Motivation and Goal

The Wikimedia Foundation, and its associated Chapters support the volunteers

“the community” in sharing knowledge via projects like Wikipedia,

Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other projects by providing infrastructure like

servers, databases, network access, and organisational support.

Volunteers, user groups, projects, organisations and communities are independent but

share the same goal, mission, objectives, and resources.

The Community

About the Organisation(s)User groups

Wikimedia Chapters

Wikimedia Foundation

By language

By project

Our Mission

Wikimedia Foundation: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.

WMBE: Engaging people in free knowledge

The organisation

Wikimedia – High level

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Commons

Wikidata

MediaWiki: the application software

Servers and databases

Rules and procedures

Volunteers and Projects

The organisation

The community

Wikimedia - Components

Open Knowledge

Open data

Licenses

A lot of volunteers

Projects

Databases

Community websites

Performant systems

A worldwide organisation

Main projects

WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia

That all people know

… but very few know is that only volunteers are writing

Wikimedia CommonsThe free multimedia storage

WikidataHierarchical Generical database

(Meta)data

Entities, Attributes

Relationships

Inventories

Linking objects

MediaWikiAll applications and services

are built on MediaWiki,

the application software

Other Mediawikiprojects

Open Licenses

Commercial use (must be) allowed

Acronym Description Non-commercial fallback

CC0 Public domain -

CC-BY Attribution CC-BY-NC

CC-BY-SA Share alike CC-BY-SA-NC

CC-BY-ND Non derivative CC-BY-ND-NC

© All Rights Reserved -

Training and Support

Training … could be quite technical

How to write articles on Wikipedia

How to create and maintain Wikidata lemma

How to query Wikidata

Photography for Wikimedia Commons

How to create video

How to create audio

How to subtitle video

Support and collaboration… but also very human

Presentations at the yearly Wikimedia Conference (Nederland)

How to upload media and catalogi to Wikimedia Commons/Wikidata

Support musea, libraries

Wiki in Education

Wikimedia user groups

Cultural events

OpenStreetMap, Open Data

International collaboration

Wikimedia examples

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Commons

Wikidata

The 3 can be combined

Any Questions?

Contact

Geert Van Pamel

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Geertivp

mailto:geert@wikimedia.be

Twitter @Geertivp

Was ik metselaar dan was Linux mijn truweel

Acknowledgements

Tim Berners-Lee to provide us with the wonderful technique of interlinking web pages with URL

Wikidata for stimulating my imagination

My Linux servers, for allowing me to experiment:

Tru64 UNIX on AlphaServer for running my company MediaWiki since2005

Raspberry Pi 3/Raspbian running a local MediaWiki server

References – Wikimedia Organisation

1. https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Belgium.svg

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2016_-_group_photo_02.jpg

4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_mini_globe_handheld_cropped.jpg

5. https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgian-love-heart-publicdomainvectors-org.svg

References - Projects

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en.png

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_barcode.svg

4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_logo_1.png

5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo_optimized.svg

6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_logo_with_text.svg

7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks_simple_book_blue_beige_borders.svg

8. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WiktionaryFr.svg

9. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-en.svg

10. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiversity-logo.svg

11. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CreativeCommonsSpectrum.PNG

References - Other Images

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Abzug_Engelberg_Schweiz.ogv

2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25890_Gravensteen_bij_zonsondergang_vanuit_de_Sint-Widostraat.jpg

3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bagaya-rijstvelden.jpg