Jeromy-Yu Chan, Deputy President of Wikimedia Hong Kong, introducing Wikimedia and her relation with Web 2.0 and Free culture to the audience invited by The Open University of Hong Kong - Student Society of Computing (Full-time Program)

1. WIKIPEDIA, WIKI
& WEB 2.0,
FREE CULTURE
By Jérômy-Yu Chan for OUHK SSC5-Mar-2009
1This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

2. •Jeromy-Yu CHAN
• Senior Chief Editor
• Administrator (Sysop)
• Deputy-President, Wikimedia HK
• Year 3 Student of HKSYU
The Speaker
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3. By KaurJmeb , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)
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4. WIKIMEDIA 101
Wikipedians, Wikipedia & Wikimedia5-Mar-2009
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5. 海納百川，有容乃大
The Motto of Chinese Wikipedia
語出林則徐贈廣州越華書院之對聯
Mar-1839
Wikipedia
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6. Wikipedia
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 Wikiwikiweb+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

7. English Version
Wikipedia
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8. One of the founders of Wikipedia , A Picture used in the 2008
Fundraiser Campaign, used under CC 3.0 (by-sa)
Jimmy Wales
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9. Chinese Wikipedia
 Established along with 12 other Wikipedias
in May 2001
 did not support Chinese characters
 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 )
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10. Main page of Chinese Wikipedia
維基百科
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11. 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
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12. Wikimedia Timeline
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Jan-2001
Jun-2003
Mar-2000

13. Wikimedia Projects
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14. Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies
and translations.
Wiktionary
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15. Collection of free educational textbooks and learning
materials
Wikibooks
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16. Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikiquote
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17. Project to provide and translate free source documents,
such as public domain texts.
Wikisource
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18. Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media,
containing more than 1,000,000 files.
Wikimedia Commons
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19. Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi,
bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life.
Wikispecies
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20. News source containing original reporting by citizen
journalists from many countries
Wikinews
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21. Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta
testing, little has been officially decided on its structure
Wikiversity
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22. Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Incubator
Administrative Wikis
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23. Coordination between different Wikimedia projects
Meta-Wiki
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24. Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new
languages for existing projects.
Wikimedia Incubator
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25. Wikimedia Foundation
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 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

26. WIKI
MediaWiki, Wiki5-Mar-2009
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27. A wiki is a website that allows visitors
to add, remove, and edit content.
Wikipedia, 2007
Wiki
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28. Brief History
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 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

29. Which inspired Ward Cunningham to use Wiki to name his new
system, by Andrew Laing , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)
The Wiki-Wiki Shuttle bus
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30. Types of Wikis
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By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

31. Why wikis are so special
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 Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)
 Openness
 Peering
 Sharing
 Acting Globally
 Logs
 Revision History
 Recent Changes
 Full of Interlinks
 New Style of Mark-up language

32. Current Usage
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 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……

33. 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
MediaWiki
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34. Wikimedia & MediaWiki
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 Wikimedia
 Collaboration of projects that runs by
Wikimedia Foundation
 Like Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc
 MediaWiki
 software which Wikimedia Projects runs on
 A typical Software that powers a wiki

35. Key facts
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 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

36. WEB 2.0 &
FREE CULTURE
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37. Web 2.0
 2 way communication
 facilitate communication, secure
information sharing, interoperability, and
collaboration on the World Wide Web.
 social-networking sites
 video-sharing sites
 Wikis
 Blogs
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38. Free culture
 The free culture movement is a social
movement that promotes the freedom to
distribute and modify creative works,
using the Internet as well as other media.
 Creative Commons
 Opensource
 Coursework
 OLPC
 Wikimedia
 Bloggers
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39. CONCLUSIONS
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40. Glossary
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 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.

41. Examples of proper usage
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 "The university started a wiki for its
students to collaborate."
 "The university started a Wikipedia for
its students to collaborate."
 "The Wikimedia Foundation announced a
new project today."
 "The Wikipedia Foundation announced a
new project today.“

42. Reference
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 Hsu, KJ. Presentation materials for National Chung Cheng
University, Chia-yi, 2006
 Hsu, KJ. 維基百科攻略 : 分享知識最前線 , Pcuser, 2006
 D. Tapscott & A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration
Changes Everything , Portfolio, 2006
 Wikimedia Foundation, Materials on its Projects, 2007
 Photos stores on Flickr.com & Wikimedia Sites
 Wikimedia Foundation, Annual Report 2007/08
 Note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

43. THANKS FOR
LISTENING!!!
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