PowerPoint Presentation
Why the world needs Wikipedia......and Wikipedia needs you!
Presentation at FISL12
Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer
29 June 2011, Porto Alegre, Brazil
WIKIMEDIA
FOUNDATION
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When I was at the job I had previous to the WMF, I used the
presentations and documentation given by WMF to scale the web
architecture there. The information was great, and it was one of
the most open architectures I've ever gotten to read about. It made
things really easy to follow, especially since even many
configuration files were shared. I'm glad to be able to now share
this information with others as well
Um mundo em que cada ser humano tenha livre acesso soma de todo
conhecimento. CCBYSA3.0 by Nicolas GoldbergVISO
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Wikipedia started with Jimmy Wales.He made this declaration at
some point in his life wanting to carry out the idea of bringing
all knowledge to all people in all relevant languages.Jimmy was
thinking about Wikipedia before the technology even existed. He was
thinking about his idea in his time as a day-trader in Chicago.He
was an early internet adopter active on mailing lists, and drifted
towards the very early ideas of the internet.He pondered whether
these early technologies could lead to something like an on-line
encyclopedia.
Monthly unique visitors400,000,000
Articles available18,000,000+
Photo and A/V Media files available6,000,000+
Contributors to Wikipedia since inception1,335,675
Active contributors each month88,000
Our stats...large community serving humanity
Why the world needs Wikipedia...
Serious about seeking truth in a world where truth isn't always
a priority
By AxelBoldt at en.wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by
AlexOvShaolin at en.wikipedia. [Public domain], from Wikimedia
Commons
A neutral point of view
By Rudolf Bruner-Dvok (1864 - 1921) [Public domain], via
Wikimedia Commons
Free as in beer...
By Gonzalo Rivero (Own work) [GFDL
(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
By Julian Fong (Natural Viagra) [CC-BY-SA-2.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
...ad-free experience on the web
Beacon for freedom (as in speech) on the web
By Lilian Wagdy (DSC_9245 Uploaded by The Egyptian Liberal)
[CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons
Knowledge is power!
By Masae (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Why Wikipedia needs you...
Wikipedia works because of people like you
by Rodrigo Paoletti (Own work) CC-BY, via Flickr
Video: Nice people
A true FLOSS project... built by volunteer hackers
By Andrew Lih (Own work) 2005-08-03 CC-BY-SA-2.0, via Wikimedia
Commons
Help maximize the performance of the #5 site on the web
By meta:User:Midom (http://flickr.com/photos/midom/2134991985/)
[CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons
Help create a new visual/rich text editor and new features
How about innovating for the
mobile and offline worlds?
Introduce Wikipedia to the world beyond...
By Gnangarra (Own work)[see page for license], via Wikimedia
Commons
Build community and make friends
By Tinucherian (Tinucherian) [GFDL
(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-3.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
No importa se voc est no Brasil...
Wikipedia a prova que voc pode
fazer acontecer em qualquer lugar.
Catalyze Brazil's Wikipedia community
by boooooooorbs, CC-BY-SA 2.0, from Flickr
6/23/10
What to do now...yes you can, right now ;)
1. Click Edit on any Wikipedia article and try it out!
2. Join our dev community
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
3. File bugs - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
4. Teach others about Wikipedia
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
5. Work with libraries, archives, museums to free knowledge and
improve Wikipediahttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
6. Organize a meetup, hack-a-thon, social
gatheringhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup
7. Innovate!
Barry Newstead Wikimedia Foundation
[email protected]@bazanews
Muito Obrigado!
"Young Professionals International Forum" of the World Affairs
Council. The people that helped me work on this are Phil Walker and
Katherin Jansen`
Greetings and thanks
Pleasure and honor to be visiting Tokyo this week, especially to
talk about something I care a great deal about.
This is perhaps only the second time that a representative from
the Foundation has been able to attend, and its a great opportunity
to share our work and to hear what Wikimedians and enthusiasts of
our projects are doing in Japan.
A great opportunity to start a dialog and for the Foundation to
gain some perspective.
6/29/11
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