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2001 news story
bit.ly/AP-commercial-net
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zb9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3129,4160196&dq=wikipedia&hl=en
2011 site rankings
source: comScore
Top 25 sites worldwide:
GooMicroFaceYippee
AmazAOLeBay
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zb9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3129,4160196&dq=wikipedia&hl=en
2011 site rankings
source: comScore
Top 25 sites worldwide:
1-4:GooMicroFaceYippee#5:Wikimedia sites6-25:AmazAOLeBay
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zb9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3129,4160196&dq=wikipedia&hl=en
Wikipedia Audience Compared With Other Information Sites
Measured using unique visitors. Data from comScore MediaMetrix.(Global Unique Visitors, in millions of users)
2007
2008
2009
2010
Wikipedia traffic in relation to other news / information resources - publicor private.
Wikipedia and wiki collaboration:
a model for inclusive media production
Collaborative peer production has exploded onto the scene.
How does it work?Technical core: wiki software
Legal core: free licenses
Why is it important?
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zb9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3129,4160196&dq=wikipedia&hl=en
Five features that make Wikipedia work
Editing an article
User profile pages
Discussion/talk/project pages
Editing history view
Recent Changes, watch lists, user contributions
Wikipedia markup codes
'''Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli''' (also '''Fonzie''', '''The Fonz''', or '''Fonz''') is a [[fictional character]] played by [[Henry Winkler]] in the [[United States|American]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[Happy Days]]''
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Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (also Fonzie, The Fonz, or Fonz) is a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days
Recent items from Libya talk page
Culture
Feb 2011 unrest in Libya
Foreign Relations
Presently on-going (edit)-war
Flag and coat of arms
Religious / political bias?
History does not mention the Gulf of Sidra incidents.
Augment/integrate Fist Crushing a U.S. Fighter Plane statue?
Five things that make Wikipedia work
Editing an article
User profile pages
Discussion/talk/project pages
Editing history view
Recent Changes, watch lists, user contributions
Open Source/free licenses
Permission to build on others work
if I like a programI must share it Software sellers want to
divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to
share with others.
I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.
Richard Stallman,
GNU Manifesto, 1985
Three things that make Wikipedia work
Perceive what your fellow humans have done
Permission to build on that work (free license)
Software that supports collaborative building
How does the rest of media work?
What other efforts have been made
to hold special or corporate interests
at bay?
The Fairness Doctrine
U.S. government policy, 19491987
Required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance
Required honest, equitable and balanced presentation
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
non-profit corporation
promotes public broadcasting
created by act of Congress (1967)
funded by the Federal Government
Independent (?) commentator
Jon StewartImage credit:Air Force Tech. Sgt.
Adam M. Stump
Innovative (?) entrepreneur
Arianna HuffingtonImage credit:World Economic Forum
Wikipedia puts YOU in charge.
An opportunity
A responsibility
Wikipedia is broadly empowering
Values:Written without bias
Verifiable information
Comprehensive
Available free of charge
Open to remixing and republication
Non-commercial core
No advertisements
Personal information collection very limited
Content evaluated purely on its quality
4,500 word articleDisambiguates titles of songs, booksCites dozens of references
By the numbers
Wikipedia and sister projects comprise the worlds 5th most popular web property
400 million people view its pages each month
90,000 active contributors
Sustained by non-profit organization
Over $16 million raised in 2010 from small donations
Over 450 tenth birthday parties
Wikipedia has its own problems
Experts are sometimes marginalized
Difficult for reader to discern good/bad content
Clashing values: anonymity, accountability
System can be gamed
(but what system cant?)
From a history of Russian Wikipedia
The increasing acceptance of Wikipedias reliability and
legitimacy had attracted many national, political, and religious
minorities to the project, who were tempted by the ability to
finally tell their side of the story, or, more dangerously, to
rewrite history in their favor.
Victoria Doronina & Maryana Pinchuk,
2011http://enwp.org/m:RuWiki_History/English
Number of active contributors declining
The next step: going mainstream
Editor diversity
Expertise in different subject areas
Global reach (editors and readers)
A welcoming and productive environment
Becoming indispensible
But in 2009, the Russian Wikipedia was no longer a small, intimate online community; it was a legitimate source of information for the Russian-speaking world.Doronina & Pinchuk, 2011
Strategic plan
Wikimedia projects are among the most-visited sites in the world, however Wikimedia does not yet have a technological, operational and financial infrastructure commensurate with peoples reliance upon it.Wikimedias five year strategic plan
Wikimedia theory of change
(from strategic plan)
Evolving culture
When I left [Wikipedia], it was a big village where everyone knew one another, and when I came back it was already a bustling city with its own central administration, rules, policies, law enforcement, judges, maniacs, not to mention the countless masses of honest workers.Dodonov, programmer from St. Petersburg
Engaging established institutions
Academia
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums
Journalism
Government
Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative
Wikipedians support professors in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool
More than 30 schools, 40 classes
More than 100 volunteer ambassadors
Wikipedians in Residence
British Museum
Childrens Museum of Indianapolis
Palace of Versailles
Tools for journalists
Watch list
Article history pages
Discussion/talk pages
WikiProjects (look at top of talk pages)
Essential ingredients
Flexible software platform for collaboration
A dedicated volunteer community
Free license: clarifies how content may be used
CC-BY-SA: Any reuse is permissible (even commercial)
Original author(s) must be credited (e.g. with a link)
Derivative works must also be CC-BY-SA
Three things we can do:
Three things we can do:
Commit to release some of our work under a free license.
Three things we can do:
Commit to release some of our work under a free license.
Commit to tinkering in public, sharing knowledge, building on others work, and seeking input.
Three things we can do:
Commit to release some of our work under a free license.
Commit to tinkering in public, sharing knowledge, building on others work, and seeking input.
Commit to helping those around us (people, organizations) understand resources like Wikipedia.
Questions?
Pete Forsyth:
[email protected] or [[User:Peteforsyth]]
Organization:
http://wikimediafoundation.org
Ambassador program: http://enwp.org/WP:AMBASSADOR
Russian Wikipedia study:
http://enwp.org/m:RuWiki_History
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