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CTM 3 - Wikipedia

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OpeningTell me please, who of you ever heard about Wikipedia?

After listening my presentation, you will have some basic knowledge about the most popular on-line encyclopedia –Wikipedia.

What is WikipediaWikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia, written collaboratively by people from around the world. The site is a wiki,which means that anyone can edit articles simply by clicking on the edit this page linkWikipedia is a project to produce a new kind of encyclopedia that is comprehensive and freeThe name 'Wikipedia' is a portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words) of "wikiwiki" and"encyclopedia".A wiki is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit thecontent. The term Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website (see Wiki software).Sometimes wikiwiki (or Wikiwiki) is used instead of wiki.Wikipedia was created on January 11, 2001 by founders Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and some enthusiasticcollaborators. Three years later, as of December 2004, there were 13,000 active contributors working on over 1,800,000 articles in more than 100 languages. As of today, there are 720,558 articles in English; every day hundredsof thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles tenhance the amount of knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia.The main reason visitors come to this site is to acquire knowledge. The second reason is to share knowledge. In fact,at this very instant, several articles are being improved. You can view the changes at the Recent changes page. Newarticles are also being recorded

Other Projects:

• Wiktionary

o Dictionary and thesaurus

• Wikibooks

o Free textbooks and manuals

• Wikiquote

o Collection of quotations

• Wikisource

o Free source documents

• Wikispecies

o Directory of species

• Wikinews

o Free content news source

• Meta-Wiki

o Wikimedia project coordination

• Commons

o Shared media repository

Using Wikipedia

If you are looking for specific information

• Search for articles Follow the links from article to article.

• Browse the various categories.

• Use your watchlist to track changes made to a particular page (only when logged in)



• Find the pages that have a link to a given page

If you just wondering around:

• Go to a random article. Click on Random article in the sidebar

• View what edits have been made to Wikipedia articles recently. Click on Recent Changes in the sidebar.

Notable strengths of Wikipedia

Wikipedia has certain advantages over other reference works. Being web-based and having a very large number of active writers and editors, it often provides access to subject matter that is otherwise inaccessible and can also (via itslinks) be an excellent guide to other relatively authoritative web content. As Wikipedia is a collaborative, ongoingproject, one may also ask questions of an article's authors.

Notable weaknesses of WikipediaWikipedia's most dramatic weaknesses are closely associated with its greatest strengths. Wikipedia's radical opennesmeans that any given article may be, at any given moment, in a bad state: for example it could be in the middle of alarge edit or it could have been recently vandalized. While blatant vandalism is usually easily spotted and rapidlycorrected, Wikipedia is certainly more subject to subtle vandalism than a typical reference work.Also, much as Wikipedia can rapidly produce articles on timely topics, it is also subject to remarkable oversights andomissions. There is no systematic process to make sure that "obviously important" topics are written about, so at anygiven time Wikipedia may be wildly out of balance in the relative attention paid to two different topics. For example, it far more likely that the English-language Wikipedia will have at least some material about any given small U.S. village

than about a given moderately sized city in sub-Saharan Africa.

Another closely related issue is that particular Wikipedia articles (or series of related articles) are liable to beincomplete in ways that would be less usual in a more tightly controlled reference work

Get involved

• Respond to a request for comment.

• Can you draw or take pictures? Help make requested images.

• Help make requested maps.

• Peer review some articles.

• Offer your thoughts and ideas on proposed Wikipedia policies.

Examples of other activities• Join a team!

o Featured Article Drive - Improving as many articles as possible to the quality required for Featured

Article status.o Cleanup Taskforce - to deal with editorial issues, fact-checking, and Wikipedia formatting in the most

efficient way possibleo Version 1.0 Editorial Team - The goal of this self-declared Wikipedia Version 1.0 Editorial Team is to

collaborate essentially to identify a set of articles that would be suitable for release in print, CD andDVD.

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ConclusionYou can use it in all aspects of your life – in school or university, to find materials for your next ToastMasters speech



WiktionaryWikibooks

WikiquoteWikisourceWiklspeciesWikinews

750,000 articles in English

Created January 2001By Jimmy Wales & Larry Sanger

100 languages

SearchBrowse

WatchlistUsing links

Random articleRecent edits



CommentsPictures

MapsReviewPolicies

Teams:Featured Article Drive

Cleanup TaskforceEditorial Team

Documents

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