Wikimedia is a non-profit organization that operates 12 collaborative online projects, including Wikipedia, with the goal of sharing all of human knowledge freely. It has over 100,000 active individual editors contributing to its projects in 280 languages, reaching over 500 million readers each month. Wikimedia is supported by volunteer contributions and over 1 million individual donors annually.

1. How Wikipedia Works
Phoebe Ayers
Wikimedia
UC Davis Libraries

3. Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely
share in the sum of all
knowledge.

9. What is Wikimedia?
12 projects
280 languages
 100,000 active individual editors
 100s of local meetup groups
 38 local/national level chapters
 150 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation,
San Francisco
 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in 2011-12)
 500,000,000 readers

10. The cultivated person’s first duty
is to always be prepared to
rewrite the encyclopedia.
-Umberto Eco

11. Wikimania 2005

13. [[user:Walkerma]]

14. Bangalore, 2010

15. Wikimania, Buenos Aires 2009

16. David Ferrieio, Wikimania 2012

17. Wikimania, Haifa 2011

18. assume shared goals, shared
principles and good faith –
but diversity: in interest,
background, nationalities,
senses of humor, political
opinions

19. Values
• Free [to use and reuse]
• Volunteer-written
• Supported by readers
• Everyone can participate
• Neutral, encyclopedic, factual
• No top down editorial control:
• Community curated work

20. WikiProjects and to-do lists
Or: what is there to do today?

26. History of an article

27. Edit summary
compare username
Date of edit
Their other contributions
Revision of an article – one “edit”

28. Evaluating an article

29. Becoming an editor

30. Adding a reference

31. How to cite