- WikiMedia is a non-profit organization that aims to empower people around the world to collect and develop educational content through various wiki projects like Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons. - The organization's mission is to make and keep useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge in order to address issues like lack of education, poverty, and lack of access to media. - Teemu Leinonen gave a presentation on WikiMedia and discussed how contributing to Wikimedia projects can help share knowledge and be part of the solution to global problems.

1. WikiMedia - Media for All

2. Teemu Leinonen Research Group Leader Media Lab - TaiK Helsinki, Finland Visiting Fellow SRI International Menlo Park, California

3. Story from South Africa

4. MobilED Mobile Audio Wiki

12. MobilED Mobile Audio Wiki

14. Wikipedia

16. How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?

17. How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?

20. World facts

25. Wikimedia

26. wiki World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be modified or contributed to by users. (Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

34. Why these projects?

35. Wikispecies - directory of the world species

37. Why not a directory of the puppets in a Muppet Show?

39. Why?

40. Editorial decisions

41. Mission The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is 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 .

43. Why Wikimedia is important?

44. Lack of education

45. Lack of education sucks!

46. Poverty sucks!

48. Crime sucks!

50. Abuse sucks!

52. Civil conflict sucks!

54. War sucks!

56. Lack of media = lack of education = many things that suck!

59. “ History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain

60. The early “Wikimedians” of Finland?

62. “ Älä polje kirjaa kuin sika, vaikka siinä on jokunen vika.” - Mikael Agricola

63. “ Do not stomp a book like a swine, even if it is not perfectly fine.” - Mikael Agricola

64. Suomenkieliset Tieto-Sanomat Mehiläinen Saima Maamiehen ystävä Vapaita aatteita

69. Why?

70. To share knowledge

71. Why people contribute to the Wikimedia?

72. Because we can.

73. Because we care.

74. Thank you - Kiitos! Teemu Leinonen teemu.leinonen@taik.fi

75. Most of the images used in the presentation are from the Wikimedia Commons.