The document discusses Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It provides details on Wikipedia's history and launch in 2001, its open editing model, the Wikimedia Foundation that supports it, and Wikipedia's success being attributed to its strong mission, shareable values, and ability for anyone to improve its content.

1. The Wikipedia Model Frieda Brioschi Wikimedia Italia Università Bocconi 8 marzo 2010

2. Wikipedia?

3. online encyclopedia can be edited by anyone aims to provide free encyclopedic information launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger The concept of a free online encyclopedia originally came from Richard Stallman. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

4. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

5. Wikipedia has a neutral point of view 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

6. Wikipedia is free content 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

7. Wikipedia has a code of conduct 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

8. Wikipedia does not have firm rules 5 pillars of Wikipedia: 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

9. (video: http://www.youtube.com/ watch ?v=j9-CovbP-7U ) Wikimedia Universe

10. Projects at a glance

11. How do they work?

12. basis of how various groups and organizations operate. it is typified by communal management, and open access to the information or material resources needed for projects. decisions being made by some form of consensus decision-making or voting. Openness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness

13. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HNL_Wiki_Wiki_Bus.jpg

14. website using wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages within the browser. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems. Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

15. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software (in 1995) , WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as " the simplest online database that could possibly work. " "Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast". Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

16. “ So in the beginning, anybody could edit Wikipedia. And then anybody could edit Wikipedia. And as of tomorrow, anybody can edit Wikipedia.” Jimmy Wales Open editing model http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112257149

17. No editorial staff No paid writer No publisher No a priori control Lacks

18. 271 language editions of Wikipedia 15 157 232 articles (3 214 283 en.wiki) 22 401 021 users (11 830 815 en.wiki) Wikipedia's latest month rank: 5 (according to ComScore) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias Numbers

19. Wikimedia Foundation

20. To empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally . In collaboration with a network of chapters , the Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge , in perpetuity . Mission http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission

21. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Vision http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision

22. Freedom Accessibility and quality Independence Commitment to openness and diversity Transparency Our community is our biggest asset Values http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values

23. “ to bring free knowledge to the planet, free of charge and free of advertising.” In concrete terms http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/ThankYou/en

24. Funding

25. 2000-2002: Bomis donated bandwith and servers 2003-now: you! History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia

26. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/Jul_Dec09_Mid_Year_Financials.pdf

27. 2007/2008/2009 Fundraising http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

28. 2007/2008/2009 Fundraising http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

29. 2007/2008/2009 Fundraising http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

30. 2007/2008/2009 Fundraising http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

31. 2007/2008/2009 Fundraising http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics

32. Donors statistics http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf

33. Expenses http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf

34. Revenues http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a4/WMF_Annual_Report_20082009_online.pdf

35. Reasons for success

36. Employees vs page rank (Cnet.com, CBS.com, GameSpot) CBS Interactive 2080 10 (Ask.com) Ask Network ?? 9 (Amazon, Alexa, iMBD, Kindle) Amazon Sites 21,000 8 (eBay, Paypal, Skype) eBay 15,500 7 AOL AOL LLC 8000 6 (Wikipedia, Wiktionary) Wikimedia 34 5 (Facebook) Facebook 1000 4 (Hotjobs, Flickr , etc) Yahoo! 14000 3 (MSN, Hotmail, etc) Microsoft 93000 2 (YouTube, Blogger, etc) Google 20000 1 (subsidiary sites) company employees Ranking

37. Strong mission Shareable core values from .com to .org medium quality contents, still growing toward high quality answers to common needs (knowledge, free of charge, always available, ..) fragile Why Wikipedia?

38. Very fast growth: Wikipedia was born in 2001 and now it contains more than 15 million articles (Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768 and has 120,000 articles) The number of contributors can be potentially infinite It’s completely free of charge Anyone can fix errors or update an article very quickly Key features

39. Startup phase: 2001-2003 No funding model Experimental phase 2003: Wikimedia Foundation 2004: first fundraising & first grant 2005: chapters & first business agreement Evolution

40. Trademark

41. [email_address] http://www.wikimedia.it All texts from Wikipedia are cc-by-sa, logos are trademark of Wikimedia Foundation Inc.