This ppt talks about the basics of Wikipedia, how it impacts learning and why is it important for anyone and everyone to be a part of Wikipedia

1. WHY?
Md Sultan Salahuddin
May 2013

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What are you going to learn in this session
• What is Wikipedia
• Who is behind it
• How it works
• Why is it important for you
• How it changes teaching & learning
• What are the downsides
• What’s the future
• Q & A

3. You
Wikipedia is my life
Wikipedia is bogus/fake/unreliable
I really don’t care, I just Google stuff
Which one are you?

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Raise your hand if you desire an eternal life

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What is Wikipedia
“A Web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections “
- Merriam-Webster
“Wikipedia is a free, open content online encyclopedia created through the
collaborative effort of a community of users known as Wikipedians. Anyone registered
on the site can create an article for publication; registration is not required to edit
articles. The site's name comes from wiki, a server program that enables anyone to
edit Web site content through their Web browser.” - TechTarget
“Wikipedia is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free online encyclopedia supported
by the non-profit organisation Wikimedia Foundation.” - Wikipedia

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About Wikipedia
• Launched on 15th January 2001
• Has 26 million articles in 286 languages
• More than 4.2 million articles in English alone
• More than 18 million users including 1400+ admins
• 6th most visited website globally
• Has a readership of 365 million approxiamately
• More than 77K active contributors working on over 22,000,000 articles
• Total no. of employees = 65 (sixty five)
• Total no. of Bangalorean Wikipedians = 131
• More than 25 Wikipedia meetups so far & 5 WikiAcademies in Bangalore
• Anybody can edit anything here
• Vandalism has been a major concern for its reputation & authenticity

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Who is behind Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American
non-profit charitable organization.
Apart from Wikipedia it also runs the following projects

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How it works

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Why is it important for you
Learning
Knowledge
sharing
Research

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Why it changes learning
Simple Easy Effective Fun
Interactive Real -Time Will test your limits

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Is there a problem anywhere
Sabotage Spam Inappropriate content
Supervision Editing Data Storage

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Where is it headed
Wikipedia is here to stay
The articles, projects, admins, users & thirst for
knowledge will forever increase
• Runs on funds
• Decrease in number of editors
• Runs on PHP, needs a tech update
• Male dominated & sexist at times – POV injection

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Why should you be on it
Immortality Creation Knowledge
Networking Expertise
‘cos Fb is too
mainstream