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50 Shades of Wiki:New tools to share, remix and reuse
Moiz Syed • Dario TaraborelliWikimania 2015, Mexico City
Dario TaraborelliHead of Research
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Moiz SyedDesign Manager
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Outline
1. The case for remix, reuse and sharing
2. Applications
3. Expected impact
4. How you can help
The case for remix, reuse & sharing
People get lost on Wikipedia once they start going down the link rabbit-hole.
Sharing
Wikipedia currently gets 2% of its traffic from social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Sharing
BuzzFeed’s social traffic is 5X its search traffic.
Wikipedia social traffic is approximately 0.06X its search traffic
Mary Meeker, 2015 Internet Trends Report
Editing vs remixing
“Content consumers may suck at producing content, but give them the right tools and they’ll make amazing content curators”
– made-up quote from somebody at Flickr, on the launch of Galleries
Editing vs remixing
How do we get value from half a billion readers?
Wikipedia builds on the idea of free licenses to support reuse and remix, but we don’t actively encourage this behavior.
Applications
Share a fact
Collections
Embeddables and widgets
Women in Science
Wikipedia needs your help
The English Wikipedia article Women in Science needs contributors from a more global perspective. Help expand it!
Guided tours and maps
Museums in downtown San Francisco
Multimedia stories
Expected impact
Increasing reach via sharing & remixing
Expand Wikimedia beyond encyclopedic, NPOV content
New entry point to discover Wikimedia contents
Mobile-first remixing and sharing
Mary Meeker, 2015 Internet Trends Report
O. Keyes (2015) The Mobile Singularity is already here. Wikipedia and the Mobile Web
Broadening our contributor base
How you can help
Help us build new tools for sharing, remixing and reusing Wikimedia content.
We’d love your feedback, thoughts and ideas.
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