KIK/IRPA. Sharing is Caring. Wikimedia Conference 2017. GLAM - Wiki Loves Art closing session.

1. Wikimedia --
The organisation behind
Wikipedia
and beyond
How Wikipedia benefits from a strong organisation.
How volunteers build upon each other.
How institutions can share knowledge and skills.
How content can be easily shared
KIK/IRPA 20 June 2017 – Sharing is Caring - Brussels Extension
Opening up with Wikimedia

2. Geert Van Pamel
 Wikipedian since 2005
 Member of WMNL since 2012
 Board member of WMBE since 2014
 Contributing to OpenStreetMap since 2013
 Living in Belgium (Vlaams Brabant)
 President of Wikimedia Belgium
 Professionally working with Geospatial and Big data systems
 Developer for Open source projects (Asterisk PBX); loving Linux
 CC-BY-SA
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KIK-IRPA-20170620-WMBE-The-Wikimedia-
project.pdf

3. “
”
Mutual symbiosis --
an almost living ecosystem
Organising the content
Infrastructure, content, structure, policy, procedures.
Volunteers, Organisations, Wikipedians.
Collaboration, creativity, build upon others, stronger together.
Free Licenses

4. Motivation and Goal
The Wikimedia Foundation, and its associated Chapters support the volunteers
“the community” in sharing knowledge via projects like Wikipedia,
Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other projects by providing infrastructure like
servers, databases, network access, and organisational support.
Volunteers, user groups, projects, organisations and communities are independent but
share the same goal, mission, objectives, and resources.

5. The Community

6. About the Organisation(s)
User groups
Wikimedia Chapters
Wikimedia Foundation
By language
By project

7. Our Mission
 Wikimedia Foundation: Imagine a world in which every single human being can
freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
 WMBE: Engaging people in free knowledge

8. The organisation

9. Wikimedia – High level
 Wikipedia
 Wikimedia Commons
 Wikidata
 MediaWiki: the application software
 Servers and databases
 Rules and procedures
 Volunteers and Projects
 The organisation
 The community

10. Wikimedia - Components
 Open Knowledge
 Open data
 Licenses
 A lot of volunteers
 Projects
 Databases
 Community websites
 Performant systems
 A worldwide organisation

11. Main projects

13. Wikipedia
The Free Encyclopedia
That all people know
… but very few know is that only volunteers are writing

14. Wikimedia Commons
The free multimedia storage

15. Wikidata
Hierarchical Generical database
(Meta)data
Entities, Attributes
Relationships
Inventories
Linking objects

16. MediaWiki
All applications and services
are built on MediaWiki,
the application software

17. Other Mediawiki
projects

19. Open Licenses

20. Commercial use (must be) allowed
Acronym Description Non-commercial fallback
CC0 Public domain -
CC-BY Attribution CC-BY-NC
CC-BY-SA Share alike CC-BY-SA-NC
CC-BY-ND Non derivative CC-BY-ND-NC
© All Rights Reserved -

21. Training and Support

22. Training
… could be quite technical
How to write articles on Wikipedia
How to create and maintain Wikidata lemma
How to query Wikidata
Photography for Wikimedia Commons
How to create video
How to create audio
How to subtitle video

23. Support and collaboration
… but also very human
 Presentations at the yearly Wikimedia Conference (Nederland)
 How to upload media and catalogi to Wikimedia Commons/Wikidata
 Support musea, libraries
 Wiki in Education
 Wikimedia user groups
 Cultural events
 OpenStreetMap, Open Data
 International collaboration

24. Wikimedia examples
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
The 3 can be combined

30. Any Questions?

31. Contact
Geert Van Pamel
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Geertivp
mailto:geert@wikimedia.be
Twitter @Geertivp
Was ik metselaar dan was Linux mijn truweel

32. Acknowledgements
 Tim Berners-Lee to provide us with the wonderful technique of
interlinking web pages with URL
 Wikidata for stimulating my imagination
 My Linux servers, for allowing me to experiment:
Tru64 UNIX on AlphaServer for running my company MediaWiki since
2005
Raspberry Pi 3/Raspbian running a local MediaWiki server

33. References – Wikimedia Organisation
1. https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Belgium.svg
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete-2013.svg
3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2016_-_group_photo_02.jpg
4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_mini_globe_handheld_cropped.jpg
5. https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgian-love-heart-publicdomainvectors-org.svg

34. References - Projects
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en.png
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg
3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_barcode.svg
4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_logo_1.png
5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Logo_optimized.svg
6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_logo_with_text.svg
7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikibooks_simple_book_blue_beige_borders.svg
8. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WiktionaryFr.svg
9. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-en.svg
10. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiversity-logo.svg
11. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CreativeCommonsSpectrum.PNG

35. References - Other Images
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Abzug_Engelberg_Schweiz.ogv
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25890_Gravensteen_bij_zonsondergang_vanuit_de_Sint-
Widostraat.jpg
3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bagaya-rijstvelden.jpg