Tajik WikipediaFree Encyclopedia

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Ibrahim Rustamov

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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

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• 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

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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