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How Wikipedia Works (2013)

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Overview of Wikimedia projects and Wikipedia; library/librarian-focused examples. No background knowledge needed; new editor focused. Numbers current as of March 2013.
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How Wikipedia Works

Phoebe AyersWikimedia

UC Davis Libraries

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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

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What is Wikimedia?12 projects

280 languages 100,000 active individual editors 100s of local meetup groups 38 local/national level chapters 150 employees at the Wikimedia

Foundation, San Francisco 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in

2011-12)

500,000,000 readers

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The cultivated person’s first duty is to always be prepared to rewrite

the encyclopedia. -Umberto Eco

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Wikimania 2005

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[[user:Walkerma]]

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Bangalore, 2010

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Wikimania, Buenos Aires 2009

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David Ferrieio, Wikimania 2012

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Wikimania, Haifa 2011

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assume shared goals, shared principles and good faith –

but diversity: in interest, background, nationalities, senses of humor, political opinions

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• Free [to use and reuse]

• Volunteer-written

• Supported by readers

• Everyone can participate

• Neutral, encyclopedic, factual

• No top down editorial control:

• Community curated work

Values

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WikiProjects and to-do lists

Or: what is there to do today?

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History of an article

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compareDate of edit

username

Their other contributions

Edit summary

Revision of an article – one “edit”

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Evaluating an article

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Becoming an editor

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Adding a reference

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How to cite