1) The document introduces the Wiki Club, an organization that aims to improve Wikipedia by adding reliable content from published sources and addressing issues like the gender gap. 2) It provides an overview of Wikipedia, noting it is the 5th most visited website and receives over 12 billion page views per month from over 470 million unique visitors, but it has only around 7500 new articles added per day and its contributors are 90% men. 3) The Wiki Club's mission is to build the encyclopedia, improve quality by accessing offline materials and experts, promote community, and document women in tech as only 17% of biographies are about women and 70% of top European women in tech are not included on Wikipedia.

1. Welcome to the
WIKI CLUB
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2. What’s the Wiki
Club?
Let’s start with a quick introduction
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3. Overview of Wikipedia
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Bit of data
- N°5 website in the world
- 12 billion page views each month
- >470 million unique visitors each months
- 7500 new articles each day
- English: >5.2M Articles | French: >1.7M | Dutch: >1.9M
Specificities
- No advertisement
- Non-profit organisation
- 180 paid employees (Google: 55k & Facebook 5k)
- Revenue: $38M (Google: $5B)
- Free content created by volunteers
- Donations (500 000 donors)

4. Fundamentals of
Wikipedia
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5. Wikipedia > Wikimedia
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6. Wikimedia
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Wikimedia holds a lot of different
projects:
- Wikisource
- Wikidata
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wiki Loves Monuments
- Wiki Loves Art
- Etc

7. 1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
2. No original research
a. Editors must base their contributions on reliable, published sources.
3. No Self Promotion
4. Relevance and Notability
a. If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is
presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list.
8 pillars you need to know
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8. 5. Verifiability
a. Means that other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes
from a reliable source
b. Even if you’re sure: content has to be checked
6. Reliable sources
a. The piece of work itself (the article, book)
b. The creator of the work (the writer, journalist)
c. The publisher of the work
Editors may also use material from reliable non-academic sources, particularly if it appears in
respected mainstream publications.
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9. 7. Neutral point of view
a. Must be written fairly, proportionately and as far as possible without editorial bias.
8. Wikipedia contains freely licensed content
9. Wikipedia has a code of conduct
10. Wikipedia has no fixed rules
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10. ● Add only knowledge that belongs in an encyclopedia
● Add only material that is available under a free license or express it in your own
words
● Describe this knowledge from a neutral position
● Add references and sources for the added information
● Do not write about your organisation, yourself, a family member, or your boss
● Do not describe new theories, new insights or thoughts and no opinions
How to start quickly?
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11. ● See articles about similar topics as an example
● Use headings to structurize an article
● Use internal links (links to other articles on Wikipedia)
● Do not add links to other sites in the body text, add those only at the bottom of the
article
● Use no qualifications (best, most, etc)
● Write timeless (not: "the last century", "next month", yes: "on 27 September 2016")
How to start quickly?
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12. Mission of the
WIKI CLUB
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13. 17%
Of biographies are about women
= GENDER GAP
Time to act
90%
Of the contributors are men
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14. Why documenting Wikipedia?
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- Build the encyclopedia
- Improve the quality of Wikipedia by
accessing offline materials and
experts
- Community
- Wait… It’s fun!

15. Zoe Adamovicz
Jasmine Anteunis
Chantelle Bell
Galia Benartzi
Loubna Bouarfa
Julia Bösch
Alisa Chumachenko
Gema Climent
Jules Coleman
Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan
Karen Dolva
Nathalie Gaveau
Jenny Griffiths
Leanne Kemp
Marta Krupinscka
Content for Women In Tech
series
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Lisa Lang
Jade Le Maitre
Roberta Lucca
Laurène Meynial-Schicklin
Claire Novorol
Jude Ower
Luba Pashkovskaya
Verena Pausder
Danit Peleg
Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss
Raffaela Rein
Helena Samsioe
Patricia Scanlon
Anita Schjoll Brede
Christine Spiten
Kinga Stanislawska
Diva Tommei
Magali Vaissiere
Pauline Van Dongen
70% of Europe’s top
Women In Tech are not on
Wikipedia
Source:
https://www.forbes.com/top-
tech-women-europe/list/

16. No sexism/language bias
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Such as
“Mrs X is less known than her brother Mr L”

17. Any questions ?
You can find us at
@thewikiclub
Thanks!
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