Slides from a talk in the Media Goes Accessible symposium 20.1.2012 at the Media Factory, Aalto University in Helsinki Finland.

1. Wikimedia: accessible (new) media for (almost) all
Teemu Leinonen

2. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

3. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

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

5. Wikipedia
- the world most famous wiki

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

8. How many of you have edit
Wikipedia articles?

10. •Word largest encyclopedia – ever!
•270+ languages
•20 000 000+ articles
• English: 3 800 000
• FI: 280 000 / SV: 420 000 / ET: 90 000
•One of the world’s top 10 websites
•English Wikipedia over 130 000 active users.
• FI: 1900
•English Wikipedia 1500 Administrators
• FI: 50
(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2012)

11. How wikipedia works?
Demo:
edit, reference, view history, talk –pages . . .

12. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

13. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

14. Wikimedia

16. Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the
languages of the world
Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from
famous people, books and speeches
Wikibooks - a collection of free study and
textbooks
Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts
that could be distributed as free and open
content

17. Wikispecies - directory of the world species
Wikinews – free news service
Wikimedia Commons - collection of free
photographs, diagrams, maps, videos,
animations, music, sounds, spoken texts,
and other free media
Wikiversity – a site for learning materials
and learning communities

19. http://www.wikimedia.org

20. Why these projects?

21. Wikispecies
- directory of the world species

23. Why not a directory of the puppets
of the Muppet Show?

25. Why?

26. Editorial decisions

27. 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.

28. Vision
Imagine a world in which every single human
being can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge.
That's our commitment.

29. Why Wikimedia is important?

30. Lack of media
(access to media)
=
lack of education
=
many things that are not nice
(like: poverty, wars, no respect of human rights,
crimes, abuse, civil conflicts, lack of democracy etc.)

31. Strict commitment to . . .
free content,
free standards,
and
free software.

32. Why?

33. Read the Mission and Vision

34. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

35. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

36. Could there be
“education for all wiki”?

37. Wikiversity

42. Learning: Time and Space
Same Time Different Time
Same Class-room teaching, Library delivery of study
Space class-room books, bulletin board,
discussions handouts
Different Video conference, Self-study
Space chat

43. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

44. 1. Wiki
2. Wikimedia for all
3. Education for all wiki
4. Epilogue

45. Think Linux
Source: Engeström, J. 2005 / 2006

46. Think Wikipedia

47. Think Skype

48. Think Blogs

49. All these are projects
started by individuals
in the open and free Internet.

50. Kiitos