WikiMedia - Media for All

Slide 1: WikiMedia - Media for All

Slide 2: Teemu Leinonen Research Group Leader Media Lab - TaiK Helsinki, Finland Visiting Fellow SRI International Menlo Park, California

Slide 3: Story from South Africa

Slide 4: MobilED Mobile Audio Wiki

Slide 12: MobilED Mobile Audio Wiki

Slide 14: Wikipedia

Slide 16: How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?

Slide 17: How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?

Slide 19: • Word largest encyclopedia • 10 000 000 + articles • 250 + languages • One of the world’s top 10 websites (ahead of BBC, CNN, Microsoft etc.) • Created entirely by volunteers • 6 000 000 accounts • “Wikipedians” (en. 1500 administrators) (Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2008)

Slide 20: World facts

Slide 22: • Almost 800 million people (aged 15 +) are without a basic literacy skills • One in five adults cannot read or write • Two-third of these are women (Source: UNESCO 2008)

Slide 24: • 72 million children are out of school • Functional illiteracy is often a result of not having reading and writing materials (Source: UNESCO 2008)

Slide 25: Wikimedia

Slide 26: wiki World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be modified or contributed to by users. (Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Slide 27: Wikipedia - the world most famous wiki

Slide 29: Wikimedia Foundation • Founded in June 20, 2003 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales • An international, nonprofit charitable organization (NGO) • Board of Trustees (7), Chair Florence Nibart-Devouard • Office in San Francisco, 12 people • 16 chapters around the World

Slide 31: • Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the languages of the world • Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from famous people, books and speeches • Wikibooks - a collection of free study and textbooks • Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content

Slide 32: • Wikispecies - directory of the world species • Wkinews - news service • Wkiversity – a site for learning materials and learning communities • Wikimedia Commons - collection of free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media

Slide 34: Why these projects?

Slide 35: Wikispecies - directory of the world species

Slide 37: Why not a directory of the puppets in a Muppet Show?

Slide 39: Why?

Slide 40: Editorial decisions

Slide 41: Mission 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. In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.

Slide 42: Vision Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.

Slide 43: Why Wikimedia is important?

Slide 44: Lack of education

Slide 45: Lack of education sucks!

Slide 46: Poverty sucks!

Slide 48: Crime sucks!

Slide 50: Abuse sucks!

Slide 52: Civil conflict sucks!

Slide 54: War sucks!

Slide 56: Lack of media = lack of education = many things that suck!

Slide 57: Wikimedia can be part of the solution

Slide 59: “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain

Slide 60: The early “Wikimedians” of Finland?

Slide 62: “Älä polje kirjaa kuin sika, vaikka siinä on jokunen vika.” - Mikael Agricola

Slide 63: “Do not stomp a book like a swine, even if it is not perfectly fine.” - Mikael Agricola

Slide 64: Suomenkieliset Tieto-Sanomat Mehiläinen Saima Maamiehen ystävä Vapaita aatteita

Slide 69: Why?

Slide 70: To share knowledge

Slide 71: Why people contribute to the Wikimedia?

Slide 72: Because we can.

Slide 73: Because we care.

Slide 74: Thank you - Kiitos! Teemu Leinonen teemu.leinonen@taik.fi

Slide 75: Most of the images used in the presentation are from the Wikimedia Commons.

Slide 76: FAQ at www.wikimediafoundation.org 1. What is the mission of the Foundation ? 2. Are you a charity? 3. Which projects do you support? 4. How is the Foundation run? 5. Who are the members of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees? 6. How does the Foundation serve its mission? 7. How is the revenue spent? 8. Where does the money come from? 9. Do you have audited financial statements? 10. What is Wikia? Is it part of Wikipedia? Is it one of the Wikimedia Foundation projects? 11. What is Wikimania? Is it a Wikimedia project? 12. How can I contact the Foundation?