User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk slides
This is a summary of the slides to be used at the BBC talk. Several of them are from my talk and Erik's talk in Berlin. See also User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk
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- Title slide -- "Speakers today" -- who are we?
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- What's a wiki? "ATTENTION WIKIPEDIA!" quote
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- What's a wiki? bullet points with explanation
- How many wikis? bullet points with explanation
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- What's Wikipedia?
- Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
- 750,000 articles total
- 275,000 English
- 100,000 German
- 150,000 images
- Open content (FDL)
- Founded January 2001
- Organized in Wikimedia Foundation
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Some problem areas
Accuracy
Wikiquette
Neutrality
Trolling
Edit wars
Organization
Performance
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Why do we need an open encyclopedia?
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Why do we need an open encyclopedia?
"Perpetuation of ignorance
is the beginning of slavery"
--Eben Moglen
Initial goals of encyclopedists
Collect "sum of all human knowledge"
Only now do we have the tools to do that
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(the following slides are from my talk, the ones above are from Erik's talk)
Free Knowledge: The Practical Revolution
How Wikimedia is changing the world
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Jimbo Wales
Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia
June 12, 2004
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Our mission
Free knowledge for everyone on the planet
Empowering volunteers to build the information commons
Atmosphere of love and respect
Objectivity, neutrality, accuracy
Our success so far
Largest English encyclopedia
More popular than Britannica online
More inclusive and more balanced
Several successful spin-offs
First WikiReaders
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The death of a Cathedral ..
Nupedia: 1999-2001 (+)
.. and the birth of a Bazaar
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Our goals for Wikipedia
Develop systematic peer review process
Increase stability and performance
By late 2004
CD-ROM or DVD edition
By October 2005:
Concise desk reference
Long term
Get Wikipedia into developing countries
Use donated computers, print edition
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Sister projects
Wiktionary
"Wikipedia is not a dictionary"
Wikibooks
"Wikipedia is not a place for HOW-TOs"
Wikisource
"Wikipedia is not a source repository"
Wikiquote
"Wikipedia is not a collection of quotations"
Meta-Wiki
"Wikipedia is not Wikimedia"
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Our goals for Wikimedia
Build successful fundraising campaigns
Create chapters in every nation
Get involved in issues which concern us
... and which we can agree on
Future projects
Wikimedia Commons and Single Sign-On
Pictures, sounds, videos
Wikinews
WikiAtlas
Open process for proposing new projects
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Imagine a world where every single person is given free access to the
sum of human knowledge.
We don't have to imagine it.
We're doing it.