1. Anna Bauer
anna.bauer@wikimedia.se
+46 (0)73 – 847 92 64

2. Plan:
● Basic facts on Wikipedia
● Women representation on Wikipedia
● Wikipedia five: group discussion
● Structure of an article & structure of Wikipedia
● How to edit
● Edit your user page
● Free hands: Best contribution rewarded!
All in 75 minutes?

3. What is Wikipedia?
● A free encyclopedia
● Allowed to be copied
and reused
● Everybody can read
● Everybody can write
● Everybody can review
● >280 different
languages
● Founded in 2001

4. What is Wikipedia?
● A free encyclopedia
● Allowed to be copied
and reused
● Everybody can read
● Everybody can write
● Everybody can review
● >280 different
languages
● Founded in 2001

5. ● American non-profit
foundation
● Founded in 2003
● Office in San Francisco
● Not influencing the content
● National chapters

6. Media repository
Dictionary &
thesaurus
Quotations
textbooks & manuals
Free content
library:source
texts
...
Directory of species
News
Participatory
journalism
Learning materials
& activities
Wiki software
development
Encyclopedia

7. What is an encyclopedia?

8. How to create an encyclopedia
… an organized collection and summary of
human knowledge.
What problems need to be solved?

9. ● Encyclopedia
● Neutral point of view
● Free content, free licenses
● Netiquette
● Otherwise no firm rules

10. Reliable & verifiable
Wikipedian Protester
(from xkcd.org)

11. Who is writing Wikipedia?

14. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_April_2011,_Editor_Survey,_91perce
nt_editors_are_male.png

15. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_April_2011,_Editor_Survey,_Percentage_of_wo
men_editors_small,_but_growing.png

16. Women representation on WP
“Broadening Wikipedia's author base contributes to better
balancing the encyclopedia's content. So far, our
contributor community strongly skews towards
technically-literate, young, male editors. To make sure
that Wikipedia's content is relevant and useful for as
many people in as many different locations as possible, it
is critical that the contributor base be as broad and
diverse as possible.”
-Recommendation posted on Wikipedia Outreach

17. Structure / features
of articles & of Wikipedia
● Article section & toolbox
● Wikipedia section
– Recent changes
● User section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

18. How to edit?
● Edit mode / view mode
● Internal links vs external links
● References

19. Edit your user page
● Present yourself with a sentence or two
● Make links to at least two articles of your
interest (potential candidates to improve)
● Add category:
– [[Category:Wikipedia workshop EGI 2013]]
– or use ”Page settings” in visual mode

20. Add image to your user page
● Me: Put Amanda Wilson on
Wikimedia Commons
● You:
– Find image of your choice on Wikimedia Commons
– Add image to your user page

21. What do we have?
● Inventory of user pages

22. The rest of the best ...
● Free hands to edit Wikipedia
● Best contribution rewarded
Thank you!