17. Online Encyclopedia
5th most visited website in
20+ Indian languages the world
282 languages 11 years old
~5% of the world’s 400mn unique visitors
population reads Wikipedia
per month
11.7 bn page requests per
month
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18. Everything on Wikipedia has been written
by people like
You & Me!
+80,000 editors on 4mn contributions per
English Wikipedia month
1000s of changes per
hour
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19. Wikimedia artifacts are free to use
No printing cost
Quality benchmarked with Encyclopedia
Britannica for comparable articles
Errors injected last only for a short time
Dynamically edited and hence more up-to-date
than any print version can be
Articles are rated for quality
Community keeps a vigil
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20. Neutral point of view
No projection of ‘best way’ or ‘only way’
Where alternate views exist, balanced and impartial
presentation is required
Verifiable accuracy
References need to be cited from verifiable authoritative
sources
Copy right laws are respected; plagiarism is not
allowed
All contribution is to be shared through free and open share
alike license
Multiple authors arrive at consensus
No article is owned by any one individual; Can be edited by
others
Collaboration and dialogue promoted through talk pages
Dispute resolution mechanisms exist
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28. To build knowledge society through free and
open education projects
To promote and educate the general Indian
public about the availability and use of free
and open educational content, and build
capacity to access, develop and contribute to
encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, images, etc
in various Indian languages
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29. Independent ‘not for profit’ organization
Wikimedia Chapter was registered as a Society
in Bangalore
Approved by Wikimedia foundation as a
chapter
29th chapter
Wikipedia is the 5th most visited global website
19.4 Mn visitors to wikimedia products from India
No of internet users in India 137 Mn
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30. Executive council
Members elect a Executive council
EC elects President, Secretary, Treasurer
Budgets and organizes events
Members can be individual or corporate
Subscription per annum: Rs 100 for Indl; Rs 1000 for
corporate
197 members; 45 from Karnataka
Special Interest groups: City; Language
Bangalore – Shri Radhakrishna
Kannada – Shri Omprakash
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44. Use it for your information (& thank all the
volunteers for their knowledge/ time/ efforts&Money)
Editorial Contribution
Monetary contribution
S/w developer contribution
Community
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Read Online
On Mobile
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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71. Mobile APP development New Feature/Tool development.
Eg: Book creator
CD/DVD making
eMail the user
SMS the user
Map
Quizz
Offline Readers like (Kiwix)
User edit count
WYSIWYG editing
GeoTagged banner (based on IP etc…)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Developer’s Mailing lists
Offline Wikipedia Mobile Developer’s Mailing lists
72 | Presentation Title | Month
2006
72. • 5th most consulted websites
• Serving 454 million people per month (with billions of page
views).
• Ad free websites
• Only 400 servers
• < 100 employees (Yahoo has 12,000? employees)
• Volunteer driven non-profit organization (Including wikimedia
India president, executive committee… are volunteers)
• Servers & maintenance
•Contributions are tax exempted in USA. Working towards the
same in India
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78. 1. Bhadani (English Content)
2. VS Sunil (Malayalam Content)
3. Abhay Natu (Marathi Content)
4. Ashish Bhatnagar (Hindi
Content)
5. Rajasekhar (Telugu and English
Content)
6. Satishchandra (Gujarati Content)
7. Arnab Dutta (Bengali and English
Content)
8. Bhawani Gautam (Nepali
Content)
9. T.Sujatha (Telugu Wikipedia and
Wiktionary, Content, E- A visually challenged Wikipedian
Magazine, Outreach) addressing the gathering at
the Wiki conference 2011
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Txtweb is designed for information on SMS. Wikipedia is one such information they provide. They do provide other informations like dictionary, cricket, news, autofare between two locations etc…
http://qrpedia.org/
WikiPedia - from Shizhao WikiPedia - from Nathan GNU Wikipedia - from siddii Wikipedia - from xintelinsanex Wikipedia - from spencerwater Lookup Companion for wikipedia – From mongolian2010 Wikipedia quick hints – from dfsq.info Search wikipedia – from pdi Wikipedia image preview Taiwan friendly wikipedia Right-Click search wikipedia Wikipedia smart links Wikipedia fail Wikipedia SSL Wikipedia search Wikipedia lookup context menu Wikipedia highlighter Wikipedia reader Wikipedia most popular articles Wikipedia for google chrome Wikihood Offline dictionary Ubuki Wiki search Googlepedia Wikipreview Sidebar for google search iSlide Smart select Wiki lookup – by david Quickrr research Wiki search via google Omniwiki Wiktionary – from shizhao wikiAll WikiPics WikiSpecies – from shizhao Wikipedia – from beatleshelp1 Wikipedia Quick Search – from Miguel Mathus Wikipedia Randomizer WikiPedia InfoTip RU Wikipedia WikiPedia progress tracker Wikipedia watchlist Search selection on wikipedia Wikipedia extra Wikipedia spanish Wikipedia espenol Wikipedia recommenar system Wikipedia translate --- Goodbye Jimmywales Banner free wikipedia Wikipedia stareFix – from DataGreed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial Formatting Italic Bold Bold & Italic Heading Heading Heading-2 Heading-3 … New line Horizontal Line Comments Inserting Image Unordered List Sub unordered list Ordered List Sub ordered list Block quote Date Internal Links External Links Inter language Links Inter project Links Redirect Special pages Categories Templates Punctuation Inserting symbols SubScript, Super script Greek Letters Commercial Symbols Mathematical Letters Formulas
http://www.samskritabharati.org/ http://samskritabharati.in/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samskrita_Bharati http://apcmag.com/linux-now-75-corporate.htm The Centre for Internet & Society : http://cis-india.org/
India Hackathon http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 - 19,20 Nov 2011 @ Mumbai. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#Notes http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_Page API Mailing List: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api Developers Mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development Join us in our 24/7 chat room: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC Keep apprised of upcoming meetings: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_developer_meetings Wikimania 2012 will be in Washington, DC, USA. Read about it: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org and subscribe to the list so you'll know when you can apply for a travel sponsorship: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l Look at photos from the Mumbai hackathon (you might be in them!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas#Hackathon_Mumbai_2011 Upload your own photos in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Mumbai_2011 If you're into mobile, subscribe to the mobile developers' list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l and browse the Mobile Projects page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects If you're especially interested in internationalisation, subscribe to that list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n and get an account on TranslateWiki: http://translatewiki.net/ If you want to work on offline Wikimedia, subscribe to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l and read http://www.kiwix.org/ If you want to work on Gadgets (front-end scripts using JavaScript), see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget_kitchen For more information about Wikimedia India, see: http://wiki.wikimedia.in And about the Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/21/the-mumbai-hackathon-was-sweet/ http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/11/hackathon-india-day-one.html tweets that happened during the event: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23IndiaMWHack11 Pictures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Mumbai_2011
Donations to Chapter : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations
