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Wikimedia, MediaWiki & Education in IT: Notes
1. Wikimedia, MediaWiki & Education in IT
By Jérômy Y Chan
for MIT6108, CUHK
with presence of Mr LAM King Man,
President, PC of Wikimedia Hong Kong
The Wordplay of the title
Wikimedia is a collaboration of projects that runs by Wikimedia Foundation, ike
Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc.
MediaWiki is software which Wikimedia Projects runs on, & a typical Software
that powers a wiki.
WikiMedia 101
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is
Wiki+encyclopedia
The so-called “Free” Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages
English edition launched 5-Jan-2001
as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct encyclopedia
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia(維基百科)…
Established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001
24-Oct-2002 User:Mountain created the first page, Main Page
27-Oct-2002 A software update for Chinese input & domain zh.wikipedia.org
17-Nov-2002 First real article: Computer science (計算機科學)
2. Wikipedians’ Community
Hong Kong
First gathering 18-Sept-2005
CWMC 2006 Aug-2006
Gathering & Expedition
Wikimedia Hong Kong will be established in Summer 2007
Worldwide
First Wikimania in 2005
Wikimania 2007 in Taipei
Current Usage of Wikipedia
Reference
Research
Extensive reading
Entertainment & Infotainment
Writing & Translating Exercise
Community & Socializing
Gollum Browser
A browser designed for Wikipedia by Harald Hanek
Originally for kids reading the site
Hide the tools for editing & administration
Might be good for presentation
Link: http://gollum.easycp.de/en/
Compare with counterparts
Britannica online
MSN Encarta
Have to pay for premium
Citizendium
opened in Mar-2007 by Larry Sanger
Article will be reviewed by experts
Baidu Baike (百度百科)
hosted by search engine Baidu
Pro-CCP point of view
Plagiarism of content on Chinese Wikipedia
3. Wikimedia
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world
to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to
disseminate it effectively and globally.
From Article II of Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Wikimedia Timeline
Nupedia Wikipedia Wikimedia
Mar-2000 Jan-2001 Jun-2003
Wikimedia Projects
Wiktionary
Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.
Wikibooks
Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikisource
Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
Wikimedia Commons
Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than
1,000,000 files.
Wikispecies
Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and
all other forms of life.
Wikinews
News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many
countries
Wikiversity
Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been
officially decided on its structure
Administrative Wikis
Meta-Wiki
Coordination between different Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Incubator
Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing
projects.
Wikimedia Foundation
Not Wikipedia Foundation
The Resolution of it affects everyone
You cannot actually change anything in Wikipedia...
Because of the rules set up by the Foundation
Chair: Florence Nibart-Devouard
4. Mediawiki & Education in IT
MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the
Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including
some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of
the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by
companies as an internal knowledge management solution, and as a content
management system. (Wikipedia, 2007)
Key facts
written in the PHP
can use MySQL or PostgreSQL Database
Original Designed for Wikipedia
Now used by
Wikimedia Projects
Wikia
One of the most popular Wiki System
Key Features
Interlinks ([[John Smith]])
Namespaces (Talk:)
Subpages (/)
Categories (Category:)
Sections (==Section==)
Templates ({{template}})
Media Content
MediaWiki Gallery
Editable interface
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. (Wikipedia,
2007)
Brief History
WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki
Ward Cunningham, Its founder
Started development in 1994
installed it online 25-Mar-1995
"wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "quick"
Cunningham name the system after a shuttle bus line that runs between the
terminals in Honolulu International Airport
5. Types of Wikis
As the graph on the left
By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)
Why wikis are so special
Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)
Openness
Peering
Sharing
Acting Globally
Logs
Revision History
Recent Changes
Full of Interlinks
New Style of Mark-up language
Current Usage
Information sharing in Global scale like Wikimedia
As Content management system in some institutions & communities-of-practice
Some wikis developed their own communities-of-practice……..
New Trends……
Wikis in Education
Wiki is…….
Described as one of the most promising and rapidly emerging innovations in
knowledge management (Gordon 2006).
Basically a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and
change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for
registration. (Wikipedia, 2006).
An information resource centralized online database nature and a powerful
collaboration tool because of its open editing characteristics (Naish, 2006)
While good e-learning is about informing, collaborating and meeting Online,
Wikis do all these things well
HKNews of HKSYU
Running by Journalism & Communication Department, Hong Kong Shue Yan
University
setup in Feb-2006
6. Problems of HKNews
Shared resources are not rich enough to create value for students to help the
different writing stages in planning, generating ideas, and taking references (W.K.
Ma & J. Y. Chan, 2007)
The contents are very similar, because students are asked to write about the
weekly assembly on the site, mostly.
resistance to using wiki
A really new technology for the most
Complains about the strange mark-up-language
Complains about the not user-friendly interface
Considerations on introducing Wiki
How many people…
will be willing to use it?
have already mastered it?
have already known something about it?
Do you have...
time to watch out for vandalism?
enough content for development?
a technician to maintain it?
enough storage to run a wiki?
Wiki-farms
A wiki farm is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group
of wikis hosted on such servers. (Wikipedia, 2007)
Major Wikifarms
PeanutButterWiki
runs by 3 graduates of Stanford since 2005
Runs on their own software
Socialtext
Perl-Based
Wetpaint
Runs on their own software
Since 2005, originally named Wikisphere
PTTWiki
Under a Taiwanese BBS system
Powered by WikkiTikkiTavi, PHP Based
Wikia
One of the Major wikifarms in the world
For Free, support multi-Language
runs on MediaWiki
founded in 2004
by Jimmy Wales & Angela Beesley
under the name Wikicities
7. Conclusions
Glossary
Wikipedia (and not The Wikipedia) is the encyclopedia project by Wikimedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation, based in the United States, is the nonprofit
corporation that maintains the project
A wiki is the generic term for web site that anyone can edit, which may run
MediaWiki or any of many dozens of other wiki software packages.
MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs Wikipedia, and many other
independent sites.
Wikia is a commercial service, with headquarters in San Mateo, California.
Examples of proper usage
RIGHT: "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."
WRONG: "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."
RIGHT: "The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new project today."
WRONG: "The Wikipedia Foundation announced a new project today.“
Changes brings by Wikis
Instant Reference VS traditional Looking up
Commons Sense VS Expertise
2-Way-Learning VS Single-Way
Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006) VS Individual labour
Openness
Peering
Sharing
Acting Globally
The End
Reference
KaurJmeb, Presentation materials for National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, 2006
KaurJmeb, 維基百科攻略: 分享知識最前線, Pcuser, 2006
W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, Student Journalists Acceptance on Collaborative Writing Wikis, IRMA, 2007
D. Tapscott & A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , Portfolio, 2006
Wikimedia Foundation, Materials on its Projects, 2007
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