WIKIPEDIA, WIKI & WEB 2.0, FREE CULTURE By J érômy-Yu Chan for OUHK SSC 5-Mar-2009 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

Jeromy-Yu CHAN Senior Chief Editor Administrator (Sysop) Deputy-President, Wikimedia HK Year 3 Student of HKSYU The Speaker 5-Mar-2009

Jeromy-Yu CHAN

Senior Chief Editor

Administrator (Sysop)

Deputy-President, Wikimedia HK

Year 3 Student of HKSYU

By KaurJmeb , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa) 5-Mar-2009

By KaurJmeb , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

WIKIMEDIA 101 Wikipedians, Wikipedia & Wikimedia 5-Mar-2009

海納百川，有容乃大 The Motto of Chinese Wikipedia 語出林則徐贈廣州越華書院之對聯 Mar-1839 Wikipedia 5-Mar-2009

海納百川，有容乃大

The Motto of Chinese Wikipedia

語出林則徐贈廣州越華書院之對聯

Mar-1839

Wikipedia 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 5-Mar-2009

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

English Version Wikipedia 5-Mar-2009

English Version

One of the founders of Wikipedia , A Picture used in the 2008 Fundraiser Campaign , used under CC 3.0 (by-sa) Jimmy Wales 5-Mar-2009

One of the founders of Wikipedia , A Picture used in the 2008 Fundraiser Campaign , used under CC 3.0 (by-sa)

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 Fir st real article: Computer science ( 計算機科學 ) 5-Mar-2009

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

Fir st real article: Computer science ( 計算機科學 )

Main page of Chinese Wikipedia 維基百科 5-Mar-2009

Main page of Chinese Wikipedia

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 5-Mar-2009

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 Timeline 5-Mar-2009 Jan-2001 Jun-2003 Mar-2000

Wikimedia Projects 5-Mar-2009

Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations. Wiktionary 5-Mar-2009

Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.

Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials Wikibooks 5-Mar-2009

Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials

Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways. Wikiquote 5-Mar-2009

Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.

Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts. Wikisource 5-Mar-2009

Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.

Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than 1,000,000 files. Wikimedia Commons 5-Mar-2009

Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than 1,000,000 files.

Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life. Wikispecies 5-Mar-2009

Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life.

News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries Wikinews 5-Mar-2009

News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries

Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been officially decided on its structure Wikiversity 5-Mar-2009

Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been officially decided on its structure

Meta-Wiki Wikimedia Incubator Administrative Wikis 5-Mar-2009

Meta-Wiki

Wikimedia Incubator

Coordination between different Wikimedia projects Meta-Wiki 5-Mar-2009

Coordination between different Wikimedia projects

Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects. Wikimedia Incubator 5-Mar-2009

Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects.

Wiki m edia Foundation Not Wiki p edia Foundation The Resolution of it affects everyone You cannot actually change anything in Wikipedia... Because of the rules set up by the Foundation 5-Mar-2009

Not Wiki p edia Foundation

The Resolution of it affects everyone

You cannot actually change anything in Wikipedia...

Because of the rules set up by the Foundation

WIKI MediaWiki, Wiki 5-Mar-2009

A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. Wikipedia, 2007 Wiki 5-Mar-2009

A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.

Wikipedia, 2007

Brief History 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 5-Mar-2009

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

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 5-Mar-2009

Which inspired Ward Cunningham to use Wiki to name his new system, by Andrew Laing , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

Types of Wikis 5-Mar-2009 By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

Why wikis are so special Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006) Openness Peering Sharing Acting Globally Logs Revision History Recent Changes Full of Interlinks New Style of Mark-up language 5-Mar-2009

Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)

Openness

Peering

Sharing

Acting Globally

Logs

Revision History

Recent Changes

Full of Interlinks

New Style of Mark-up language

Current Usage 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…… 5-Mar-2009

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……

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 5-Mar-2009

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

Wikimedia & MediaWiki 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 5-Mar-2009

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

Key facts 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 5-Mar-2009

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

WEB 2.0 & FREE CULTURE 5-Mar-2009

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 5-Mar-2009

2 way communication

facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

social-networking sites

video-sharing sites

Wikis

Blogs

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 5-Mar-2009

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

CONCLUSIONS Give me a few more minutes please…… 5-Mar-2009

Glossary 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. 5-Mar-2009

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.

Examples of proper usage  "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."  "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."  "The Wiki m edia Foundation announced a new project today."  "The Wiki p edia Foundation announced a new project today.“ 5-Mar-2009

 "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."

 "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."

 "The Wiki m edia Foundation announced a new project today."

 "The Wiki p edia Foundation announced a new project today.“

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