1) The document discusses sharing knowledge on Wikipedia by becoming an editor and contributor. 2) It provides an overview of Wikimedia, including that it has 12 projects across 280 languages with over 25 million Wikipedia articles and 100,000 active editors. 3) The document encourages contributing to Wikipedia by creating and updating articles, adding images and references, and spreading awareness about editing being easy.

1. Share your Knowle dge in Wikipedia

3. T Shrinivasan
tshrinivasan@gmail.com
GNU/Linux Evangalist
Editor : http://Kaniyam.com
Co-ordinator : http://ilugc.in
Publisher : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
Blogger : http://Goinggnu.wordpress.com
Coder : http://github.com/tshrinivasan
Photographer : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Tshrinivasan

4. Imagine a world in which every single
human being can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge.
- Wikimedia’s vision statement

5. History

6. Wikipedia
• Online Encyclopedia
• Can be edited by anyone
• Aims to provide free encyclopedic information
• Launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales
and Larry Sanger
• The concept of a free online encyclopedia
originally came from Richard Stallman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

7. •Jimmy Wales

9. inter-language
links

16. Wikimedia is global
Wikimedia chapters, 2013 (dark blue = founded)

17. What is Wikimedia?
12 projects
280 languages
25 million Wikipedia articles
18 million media files
 100,000 active editors
 100s of local meetup groups
 38 local/national level chapters
 150 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in 2011-12)
 500,000,000 readers

18. How to Edit?

22. History of an article

23. compare
Date of edit
username
Their other contributions
Edit summary
Revision of an article – one “edit”

24. Becoming an editor

25. …saving an edit

26. Add a reference

27. 5 Pillars

28. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 1
Wikipedia is an
encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

29. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 2
Wikipedia has
a neutral point
of view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

30. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 3
Wikipedia is
free content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

31. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 4
Wikipedia has
a code of
conduct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

32. 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 5
Wikipedia does
not have firm
rules
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

33. Values
• Free [to use and reuse]
• Volunteer-written
• Supported by readers
• Everyone can participate
• Neutral, encyclopedic, factual
• No top down editorial control:
• Community curated work

34. Contribute
● Create Articles
● Update Articles
● Fix Spellings
● Add Images
● Add References
● Add News
● Upload Media
● Add meaning for
Words
● Write Travel Guide

35. Code Contribute
● Create Gadgets
● Fix MediaWiki
● Write Tools
Get Grants :-)

36. Spread the News
● Editing is Easy
● Talk to Friends
● Train your Families

37. Donate Money

38. Pros & Cons
Pros:
•Very fast growth: Wikipedia was born in 2001 and now it
contains more than 13 million articles (Encyclopedia
Britannica was first published in 1768 and has 120,000
articles)
•The number of contributors can be potentially infinite
•It’s free of charge
•Anyone can fix errors or update an article very quickly

39. Pros & Cons
Cons:
•Absence of a top-down planning and systematic
review process
•The quality of articles varies widely and over time
•Modifications go directly online: vandalism and
inaccurate content can stay online for a while before
it gets detected
•Coverage of topics and level of detail is not always
proportionate to their importance

40. Planning for the next 10 years

42. Indian Languages

43. Bridging the gender gap

44. Contributors everywhere

45. And readers, too
Kenya, OLPC school project

46. Thank you
T Shrinivasan
tshrinivasan@gmail.com