1. Wikimedia foundation
Vamsapala
ID: 5301201125
Subject -Buddhism & Economics
Lecturer : Dr. Montra Leoseng
International Bachelor of art , 3rd year, Second Semester , Academic year 2013
Mahachularlongkorn University , Wang Noi, Ayutthaya, Thailand

2. Introduction
• Is there anything we can get free ..?
• Perhaps, there is something we can get free but
for sure that we can not get everything in this
world. So, what kind of things we can get free,
how we can it. why we need free, where we can
get it.
• Suppose, if “money make everything”, what
money can’t make ..?
• So let me introduce what I have a thinking to
share today…

3. Wikipedia is encyclopedia project operated by the Wikimedia
Foundation(non-profit organization)

4. Jimmy Wales

5. • Wikipedia provides 279 languages.
• Wikipedia is a non-profit organization.
• Wikipedia one of the ten most popular
website on internets through out the world.

6. • Wikipedia is something special .
• It is like a library or a public park.
• It is like a temple for the mind.
• A place everyone can go to think learn free.

7. Wikipedia provides
• Information
• News
• History
• Social
• Economic
• Politics
• Religions
• Technology
• Etc……

8. Wikipedia's sister projects
Commons
Free media repository
MediaWiki
Free software
development
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project
coordination
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and
manuals
Wikidata
Free knowledge base
Wikinews
Free-content news
Wikiquote
Collection of
quotations
Wikisource
Free-content library
Wikispecies
Directory of species
Wikiversity
Free learning
materials and activities
Wikivoyage
Free travel guide
Wiktionary
Dictionary and
thesaurus

9. What Wikipedia say ..?
• Dear readers:
• If Wikipedia is useful to you please take one
minute to keep it online and ad-free another year.
• We have only 150 staff but serve 450 millions
users.
• We survive on donations if everyone reading this
gave 100 baths so please help us forget
fundraising and get back to Widipedia. Thanks..

10. • In Buddhist teaching …
• what money can’t make or can’t buy..?
• It is…… Morality .
• Wikipedia has offering the generally
knowledge without any profit always to the
world.

11. Conclusion
• Of course, there is something free we can gain in this world that
may much valuable for all.
• Money can’t make everything.
• We are coming to the world to do something good but not to do
something bad.
• Some people does to broke the society but some people rebuild.
• Human is wonderful who can destroy the world and he can give
intelligent ideas to be peaceful the world.
• Really peace can build even though who is non- Buddhist.
• Buddha said: live until hundreds years without any benefit it is
selfish but live one days to does good to others who is better
then.
• To do good , not to do bad that is Buddhist economic .