Wiki communities Angela Beesley Starling NSW KM Forum Sydney 2009
May 11, 2015
Wiki communities
Angela Beesley Starling
NSW KM Forum
Sydney 2009
Not just an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is a huge global community
Wikimedia Conference 2007, Taipei.
Only a tiny percentage will participate
Wikipedia has
•¼ billion readers every month
•Thousands of regular editors
The 1% rule
Why do we want more editors?
“article quality is indeed correlated with both number of edits and
number of distinct editors.”
HP Labs 2007
Learning wiki syntax is a barrier to participation
Make it as easy as you possibly can
answers.wikia.com
answers.wikia.com
Transparency increases trust
Dispute resolution
Encourage new members
Trust the community Make it easy to start participating Define a shared goal
example...
Best practices
Imagine a world in which every
person can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge.
Wikipedia’s Vision
With the exception of copyrighted images, logos, and screenshots, this presentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• Golden Wiki Award image created by Hill and available under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gfdl.html http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldenwiki.png
• Wikimania 2007, Taipei photo by Alex S.H. Lin and available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania07finalgrouppic.jpg
• The Wikipedia logo was created by Nohat. It is copyrighted and a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Wikia logo designed by Mike Bohrer, © Wikia, Inc. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia:Logo
• The Star Wars Wiki logo was designed by Tracy Duncan and is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Wiki.png
• “Wikipedia”, “The Wikimedia Foundation” and the Wikipedia logo are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• “Wikia” is a service mark of Wikia, Inc. • Screenshots of wiki content include text which is licensed under the GNU Free
Documentation License.• HP Labs quotation - Dennis M. Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman, Assessing the
Value of Cooperation in Wikipedia. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/index.html
• Disclaimers: The logos used here may be copyrighted and/or trademarked to their respective owners. Their use here does not imply endorsement. Wikia, Inc. and The Wikimedia Foundation are separate organisations and mention of them here does not imply any relationship between them.
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