Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask

Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but were too afraid to ask Liam Wyatt, 7 June 2010 JISC/Culture24 - London

Unintentional Artichoke.

Links to: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/menus-cookbooks

Intentional Adenauer

Some introduction...

Wiki. What? Wikis in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Charity Software Chapter Website

http://underdogpictures.com/wikidoc/site/trailer.htm Documentary trailer - “Truth in Numbers” •s

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters. - Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters. - Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy” knowledge If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters. learning

Some Key Policies • Neutral Point of View (NPOV) • Veriﬁability (V) • No Original Research (NOR) • Notability (N) • Ignore All Rules (IAR) cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pillars

Saussages, law, encyclopedias....

Gnangarra - CC-by http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_friday_gnangarra_06.JPG Recommendations: wikimedia.org.au/glam

WP:GLAM

“Free” • the freedom to use the work and enjoy the beneﬁts of using it • the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it • the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression • the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works http://freedomdeﬁned.org/

http://creativecommons.org/

“Free x2” not for proﬁt, volunteer created, available to use, and re-use. Imagine if you never had to deal with a licensing org. again! Gratis Libre

• Freedom of Panorama • Terms of use • Cultural rights • Commercial license • Donor restrictions • Attribution • Photography policy • TPMs/DRMs • International • Fair Use copyright terms • Copyright in scans Control of Museum Art Images: The Reach and Limits of Copyright and Licensing Melissa Brown, Kenneth Crews - Columbia University http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542070

What creates copyright: ? “Originality” “Sweat of the Brow”

The legal arguments are just that. What about the moral argument?

If you love something, set it free.

(even if love isn’t always free) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVE_(Sculpture)

Seznam členů posádky Bounty (cz) or Lázadás a Bountyn (hu) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Nla.ms-ms5393-2-s1.jpg

The BM & me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia:GLAM/BM Andrew Dunn - CC-by-SA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg

“[The British Museum is] one of the broadest-ranging cultural collections in the world. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is the most consulted and largest compendium of knowledge ever compiled. By harnessing the expertise of the British Museum and the reach of Wikipedia, this project aims to bring mutual beneﬁt to both organisations.” - @matthewcock

Qualitative & Quantitative

“Backstage Pass” http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Backstage_Pass#Results_of_the_day

get excited and make things

We’re doing the same thing, for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium. Let’s do it together.

Peace, Love & Metadata liamwyatt@gmail.com [[user:witty lama]] @wittylama www.wittylama.com/blog Presentation available via my website

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