2. Educate people about Wikimedia projects
Teach people how to contribute to them
Help people to improve articles relating to the
subjects the museums cover
Find ways that I can help the museum to use
open knowledge projects
3. What is Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual
encyclopedia
Editable by everyone
Written collaboratively
An aggregator of open license resources
Peer reviewed
Keeps every previous version of an article
Creative Commons Attribution Share a like
6. What does Wikimedia do?
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
Jimmy Wales
“We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big
things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done
for love.”
Clay Shirky
7. Wikipedia's Audience
The largest encyclopedia ever written, available
in 285 languages.
The 6th most visited website
Serves ≈500 million people each month, 21
billion page views a month (3 billion mobile) e.g
LHC article is viewed 1m times a year in
English and is available in 76 languages
Funded by donations and run by a
charity; the Wikimedia Foundation
11. Who writes Wikipedia?
Everyone can edit Wikipedia
100,000 regular contributors
Some languages are very big like English, some languages
are very small like Welsh
The editors have control, they were the ones who decided
to turn Wikipedia off for a day
"Wikipedia doesn't work in theory, only in practice"
18. Mobile phones have limited screen size and
ability to display media
Lack of infrastructure for laptops with or without
an internet connection
Books: Transportation and storage costs can
be 4x production cost
23. Some of the reasons organisations
add content to open knowledge
projects
Added value of connected information and
translation into other languages
Lots more people seeing the content
26. Wikimedian@nhm.ac.uk
Wikimedia commons
The History of Wikipedia video
On demand publishing in rural Africa
Invention to keep the lions away
Wikipedia Zero
Sugata Mitra: Build a school in the cloud, TED
QRpedia.org
Michael Edson : GLAMwiki 2013
Cherry Mae: Open Access for the 3rd World
Wikimedia report card
Why Wikipedia is as important as the pyramids
Wikipedia Page views tool
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