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)
Strategize a Smooth Tenant-to-tenant Migration and Copilot Takeoff
Wikimedia, Wiki & Web 2.0, Free Culture
1. WIKIPEDIA, WIKI
& WEB 2.0,
FREE CULTURE
By Jérômy-Yu Chan for OUHK SSC5-Mar-2009
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2. •Jeromy-Yu CHAN
• Senior Chief Editor
• Administrator (Sysop)
• Deputy-President, Wikimedia HK
• Year 3 Student of HKSYU
The Speaker
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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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