Wikipedia has 500 million readers but how can it reach the other 6.5 billion people? While Wikipedia provides access to information for many, others still lack internet access. Wikipedia and related projects aim to increase contributions and make content more widely available through various methods like offline access, mobile access in developing areas, and training events to help more people participate.

1. Do you know Wikipedia?
No.
WikiIndaba, Johannesburg 21/06/2014

2. Wikipedia has 500 million readers.
How about the other 6.5 billion people?

3. Protester holding sign at 15 March 2008 anti-Scientology protest in Atlanta, Georgia. Sign modified by Chmee2.

5. Wikipedia Edit Wikipedia
!
(maybe)

6. Possible access
to Wikipedia
Find Wikipedia
Use Wikipedia
Happy
mmm…
(omissions,
mistakes)
Go elsewhere
Edit Wikipedia
Happy
with it?
Involved in
Wikimedia
offline events-
training
Contribute to
Wikimedia
offline
Projects
Payed staff
Existingcontent
Payedstaff
Donation?
Better Wikipedia
Openlicenses
Managed
Wikipedia
You have access
to the Internet,
a smart phone,
a mobile phone,
a computer

7. Reading Wikipedia
is a form of legitimate peripheral participation
through which individuals gain entrée and
can move towards more active participation
Antin, J. & Cheshire, C., 2010. Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia.
In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. S W ’10. NewYo k, NY, USA:A M, pp. 127–130.

8. What is Wikipedia about?

10. WikiAfrica Cameroun, 2012-2013.

12. Photo by Sandrine Dole, 2010, cc by-sa

14. What is Wikipedia about?

15. What is Wikipedia about –
according to where you are?

16. Piracy
Access to the Internet
Access to the Internet through mobile phone
Access to content
Free
Gratis
Informal economy
Volunteers
School books
Development projects
Education
Cooperation for development
Something useful
Copyright
Copyleft
Offline access to Wikipedia
Wikipedia zero
Sharing
Education system
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
WikipediaWikimedia
Government
Freedom of expression
Censorship
Control
Cooperation rhetoric Children
Stable Internet connection
Electricity
School
Fun
Curiosity
What content
Useful
Mouvement
Ideology

17. Piracy
Access to the Internet
Access to the Internet through mobile phone
Access to content
Free
Gratis
Informal economy
Volunteers
School books
Development projects
Education
Cooperation for development
Something useful
Copyright
Copyleft
Offline access to Wikipedia
Wikipedia zero
Sharing
Education system
Wikipedia
Wikimedia
WikipediaWikimedia
Government
Freedom of expression
Censorship
Control
Cooperation rhetoric Children
Stable Internet connection
Electricity
School
Fun
Curiosity
What content
Useful
Mouvement
Ideology

18. WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

19. 19
WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

20. 20
WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

21. CKOI, 2014. Director and script Mike Epacka; film-maker Regis Talla

22. CKOI, 2014. Director and script Mike Epacka; film-maker Regis Talla

23. Wikipedia
Reading Wikipedia is a form of legitimate peripheral participation
through which individuals gain entrée and
can move towards more active participation
Antin, J. & Cheshire, C., 2010. Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia.
In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. S W ’10. NewYo k, NY, USA:A M, pp. 127–130.

25. Image. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, ShareYour Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.
Iolanda Pensa - io@pensa.it - http://io.pensa.it
Johannesburg, June 2014.