Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project that was launched in 2001. It allows users to collaboratively write and edit its articles, making it one of the largest reference websites, attracting over 200 million visitors monthly. Wikipedia operates on a wiki model, is non-profit, and is funded primarily through small donations from its users. It provides the benefit of free access to the sum of human knowledge and allows for ongoing community improvements to content.

1. WIKIPEDIA
Imagine a world in which every single person is given
free access to the sum of all human knowledge…
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2. CONTENTCONTENT
• Introduction
• What is Wikipedia?
• History of Wikipedia
• Business
• Technology
• Advantages, Benefits
• Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
• The latest generation of collaborative Web-based
tools, namely wikis, blogs and more, offer many
unique and powerful information sharing and
collaboration features.
• They also have the added advantage of taking the
technical skill out of these features, allowing users to
focus on the information and collaborative tasks
themselves.
• Wikis, blogs and photo-blogs carry the potential of
complementing, improving and adding new
collaborative dimensions to the many Web-based
education,.

4. What is Wikipedia?What is Wikipedia?
“The Free Encyclopedia”
• a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project
• Wiki+ (encyclo) Pedia = Wikipedia
• Not only a community-developed encyclopedia, a well-
linked Web site, (boosts Google rankings)
• A Collaborative Dictionary.

5. History of WikipediaHistory of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia was launched on its own domain,
wikipedia.com, on January 15 2001
• Founded by Jimmy Wales
• Wikipedia originally developed from another
encyclopedia project called Nupedia
• It was intended to make Wikipedia a business for
profit ,later it changed.
• In January 2007, Wikipedia entered for the first time
the top-ten list of the most popular websites in the
U.S.

6. BUSINESS
• Non-profit foundation
• 10,265,335 registered users,
including 1,673 administrators
• Aims to distribute a free encyclopedia to
every person
• Funded by public donations
• Applying for grants

7. BUSINESS
• One of the largest reference web sites (Top 10
in Google)
• Attracting around 200 million visitors monthly
as of 2016
• More than 75,000 active contributors working
on more than 13,000,000 articles

8. TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY
• Web version 2.0
• Written in PHP
• RDBMS MySQL or PostgreSQL
• OS Cross platform
• Wikipedia is running MediaWiki version 1.16
alpha-wmf(r54535 ).
• Type WikiLicenseGPLv2+
• Website mediawiki.org(English)

9. ADVANTAGESADVANTAGES
• Multilingualism/multiculturalism
• Amazing size
• It’s remarkably good
– Easy to create
– Provides high-profile information
(Google-friendly)
– Allows community to enhance &
develop content

10. ADVANTAGESADVANTAGES
• Free access (if you have the internet)
• Fundamental change to information
production, distribution , and authority
• Freedom to:
-copy
-modify

11. BENIFITS
• provide clear benefits to college and
School’s students
• Freedom in the sense of GNU
• Collaborative software which respects
the users
• Open and free

12. CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION
• Wikipedia is Community
• Wikipedia is most useful as a quick and simple way to find
basic reference information. It will never be a source of
primary literature.
• Wikipedia is, by and large, accurate most of the time.
However, until some formal validation process is
introduced, the information can not be considered 100%
reliable.

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