This presentation is to be used for Wikipedia session during outreach programs.

1. What is
WikipediA?
User:Psubhashish
@psubhashish

2. Who
edits articles on Wikipedia?

3. wiki |ˈwikē|
noun
a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and
structure by its users.
ORIGIN coined by programmer Ward Cunningham
(1949–), from Hawaiian wiki-wiki ‘quick-quick.’

4. Wikipedia is a
Free
Online
Encyclopedia that
Anyone can
Edit

5. Largest online encyclopedia
20+ 5th
Indic popular
languages website
12 bn 50 Cr.
Articles read Unique visitors
every month 2 Cr. From India

6. ?
Does Wikipedia pay for
editing articles

7. No

8. You can also [edit] Wikipedia!

9. What you can edit on
Wikipedia?

10. You can
[Edit] an existing article
Correct mistakes
Add facts and improve it

11. Are you telling me lakhs of people edit Wikipedia?
And they don't fight?

12. Welcome to the house of
Wikipedia!
1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view.
3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use,
modify, and distribute.
4. Editors should interact with each other in a
respectful and civil manner.
5. Wikipedia does not have firm rules.

13. Every fish doesn't have an article on
Wikipedia, only Nemo has! ;-)

14. Sob..sob...there is no article about me on
Wikipedia :'(

15. Can I write poem, stories and
news on Wikipedia?
How about my pet dog and
my granny?

16. Can I
copy
content from
Newspapers, books and journals?

17. Who verifies the
authenticity
of Wikipedia?

18. How can I
trust
Wikipedia
if anyone can
change
the content?

20. Important links:
● English Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org
● Facebook group: fb.com/groups/wikipediasupport

21. Credits
Design & concept: Subhashish Panigrahi (User:Psubhashish),
Wikipedia logo is a trademark of Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Uncle Sam: James Montgomery Flagg in 1916-1917, Shell fish:
opencage.info, Chat bubbles: User:bdesham, Times of India
1947: http://1.bp.blogspot.com
Fonts used: Linden Hill, Prociono, Junction
(theleagueofmoveabletype.com) all under CC-BY-SA 3.0
You are free to copy, modify and remix this work. Released under CC-BY-SA 3.0