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Wikipedia radical idea
Imagine a world…
in which every single person
is given access to the sum of human knowledge
My daughter, unknown artist,before I bought her a real computer
Florence Devouard - [email protected]
Global top 10 website(Alexa, ComScore, Nielsen)
Latin America -- 34% reachNorth America -- 31% reachMiddle East/Africa -- 25% reachAsia Pacific -- 17% reachEurope – 32% reach
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1. 10,000,000+ articles (85k in Hebrew)
2. 250+ languages
3. Free of charge, free of advertising
4. Free to reuse and redistribute
5. Freely editable
Wikipedia, the basics
Florence Devouard - [email protected]
Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination
Selection of children-safe Wikipedia contentdistributed in UK, Pakistan, SA
Florence Devouard - [email protected]
Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination
English Wikipedia contentdistributed on the One Laptop Per Child project
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Open source: maximizes progress through cooperationFree licence: prevents restrictions to dissemination
Offline version of Wikipedia distributed in Africa
Florence Devouard - [email protected]
Florence Devouard - [email protected]
Hosting the Websites(WMF only)
Facilitatingcollection of content
Facilitatingcollection of content
Developingthe software
Strengtheningcommunity
- Scanning old books- Liberating copyrighted content …
-Accessibility-Print-on-demand-Video collaboration…
-Annual conference-Wikipedia Academy …
- digitization projects- participation to events
Foundation Wikimedia & Wikimedia Chapters missions
Facilitatingdissemination of content
- CD/DVD/USB Key- Cell phones- OLPC…
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• Primarily on Gift Economy
• But also on the sale of services
• And on brand licencing
A financial strategy based…
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Global trends
• Production of resources for companies
• Decentralized, hands off attitude works
• Impact on reputation
Implications of WP on companies
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Global trends
• Open doors attract members of the global talent pool
• Creation (or re-creation of tribes)
• Open systems make bounderies porous to external ideas
• Openness allows to share successes with others
• Community united by goals, rules and values
• An economy based on hope and trust
Global trends - enterprise 2.0
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Developing sustainable models where…
Creators can make a livingDissemination and remix of works is facilitated
Access to knowledge and education to all is made possible
Emergence of new creators is facilitated
