2. Purview
• Open Source
• Wikipedia
• Pain points
• Innovative use of Current Wiki
• Future of Wikipedia
• Future of Shared Economy
3. Open Source
• Open source as a development model promotes
• Universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint
• Universal redistribution including subsequent improvements if any
• Includes the concept of
• Concurrent yet different agendas and differing approaches
• Peer production by bartering and collaboration
• End-product: source-material, blueprints, and documentation available
at no cost to the public
• Applications
• Computer software, Electronics, Beverages, Digital content, Medicine,
Science and engineering, Fashion
• Largest open source digital content community – Wikipedia
4. Wikipedia
• Characteristics
• Collaboratively edited – Community portal
• Multilingual (287 languages)
• Free-access
• Free content Internet encyclopaedia – reference desk
• Non-profit Wikimedia Foundation
• Policies
• Neutral Point of View
• Verifiability
• No original research
• Wiki etiquette
• Good faith
• Civility
• Discussion
5. Key Facts
• 130,858 active editors (May 2014) 21,520,968 (21.5 mn) total
accounts
• Alexa Rank and Google Display Network Ad Planner – 6
• In links – 2,154,423 (2.15 mn)
• 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors a
month
• English Wikipedia – over 4.5 million articles
9. Servers
• 300 servers
• Uses geographical DNS to distribute requests between
two main sites (US and Europe) depending on the
location of the client
• 4 Colocation facility servers:
• Ashburn, Virginia
• Tampa, Florida
• Amsterdam, the Netherlands (cache)
• United Layer in San Francisco (cache)
10. • Donations trembles future plans
• Operational expenses are increasing
• International expansion needs funds
• Scalability is difficult
Suggestion
• Differentiate contributions by companies on wiki pages to limited lines and charge
• Sell few data analytics to companies on search incomings
• Donor analysis and required steps to be taken to decrease churn rate
Revenue Model For Sustainability
12. Encourage Contributors
Problem:
• To retain current users and to train new users
• Switching cost low for contributors/users
Nominations
Get-togethers
13.
14. Suggestion:
• Incentivize to produce data
• Chat service for tap back
• Award program for to contributor
• Mentoring, Guiding Hand for new contributors
Encourage Contributors…
15. Reliability of Data: Wikipedia
• Criticized for being an open model for anyone to edit
• Often been questioned over quality of data
• Consensus reached without any direction over neutrality
• Lack of authority to an expert
• Editing data for self-centered gains
• Verifying and improving data could take lot of time
• Little diversity among editors
16. Reliability of Data…
Suggestions
• Scholarly experts to review the edited data
• Start monitoring the user editing activities
• Improve the diversity of pool of editors
• Do not give significant authority to an administrative editor
• Editors to reach neutral conclusion through knowledge and
not consensus of each other
17. Competitors
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• Google’s child
• Picture and name along with
content
• Profit sharing platform
• Comments and personal views
• Fork of Wikipedia to show only
reliable data
• In active
• English open access academic
journal
• Peer reviewed
• Expert contributors
18. Competitors…
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• Specific financial content wiki, exam
preparation material, videos, tips
• Registered people add content
• Specific content- news, information
and opportunities on energy
industry
• Community on chemistry
• Open to all to contribute
• Real time editing
• Peer review by experts
19. Current Innovative Use
• Apps of wiki on Android (different app for mobile and tablet)
and MAC
• Online textbooks and tracking of assignments
• Offices use to peer review – protected page
• Intellipedia- United States Intelligence Community (IC)
• Share notes
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25. Future of Wikipedia
PROBLEMS
• Shrinking contributor
base
• Largely Male dominated
• Attracting contributors
from music, art literature
& economics.
• Attract recognized experts
as editors to garner
support
• Historical & scientific
articles are full of errors
26. Future Projects…
• The WikiWomens Collaborative
• WikiProject Women Scientists
• WikiProject Biography: Science and academia task force
• WikiProject Physics: Biographies, Publications and History task
force
• WikiProject History of Science
27. Monmouthpedia
• Deletionists" are proponents of
selective coverage
• Inclusionists" are proponents of broad
retention
• Monmouthpedia – Elaborate info about
a town using QR Codes
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9
guSj8fFAg
28. • Wikitude – Augmented
Reality
• displays information about
the users' surroundings in a
mobile camera view
• image recognition and 3d
modelling.
Wikitude
29. It’s not just “Sharing”, it’s the future
• Digital divide will increase
• Network effects will have a clear
winner
• Continued shift from traditional to
Peer-to-peer economy
• Increased sustainability
• Opportunities in commercial real estate, healthcare,
experience sharing, and sharing executives
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTwPucuYC08
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93xds_o-RM
31. A healthy Community doesn’t
eliminate the problems…
But it understands how to
deal with them!!
Notas del editor
Alexa Internet ranks websites based on a combined measure of page views and unique site users. Alexa creates a list of "top websites" based on this data time-averaged over three-month periods
Linking root domains: The number of linking root domains is a measure of how many external sites link to the website in question
Other websites centered on collaborative knowledge base development have drawn inspiration from Wikipedia. Some, such as Susning.nu, Enciclopedia Libre, Hudong, and Baidu Baike likewise employ no formal review process, although some like Conservapedia are not as open. Others use more traditional peer review, such as Encyclopedia of Life and the online wiki encyclopedias Scholarpedia and Citizendium. The latter was started by Sanger in an attempt to create a reliable alternative to Wikipedia. Scholarpedia also focuses on ensuring high quality.
Colocation often refers to Internet service providers (ISPs) or cloud computing providers that furnish the floor space, electrical power and high-speed links to the Internet for a customer's Web servers.