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Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment

Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment. Highly popular. Wide variety of uses. Wide variety of uses. The encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Who is editing now?. http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/. Interactions don’t always go smoothly. Wiki.

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Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment

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  1. Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment

  2. Highly popular

  3. Wide variety of uses

  4. Wide variety of uses

  5. The encyclopedia that anyone can edit

  6. The encyclopedia that anyone can edit

  7. Who is editing now? http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/

  8. Interactions don’t always go smoothly

  9. Wiki

  10. Wikis applied to many domain

  11. Goals of Wikipedia assignment • Provide common ground for class • Getting involved in a online community new for most • Example of problems & solutions in contribution, regulation, socialization, organization & start-up • Provide a public good • Return some of what you’ve learned back to the world by improving Wikipedia

  12. History • Founded in Jan 15, 2001 as a feeder to Nupedia, an expert-authored, peer-reviewed, free encyclopedia • Co-founders • Jimmy Wales • Larry Sanger • Heavily subsidized by bomis.com (1996), Wales’ search portal, ad and porn company Jimmy Wales Larry Sanger

  13. Growth • English version • ~3.5M articles in English language Wikipedia • 151,934 unique editors • Average 435 words/article (vs. 650 in Britannica) • Doubling number of & editors articles every 40 weeks • Slower growth starting in 2007 • All versions • 250 languages • 11 language versions > 100K articles • 282,875 unique editors • Spin-offs • Wiktionary, wikibooks, wikiversity, wikinews, wikispecies, wikiquote, wikisource Article growth per month

  14. Articles

  15. Editing

  16. Portions of poor quality

  17. Mar 17, 2010 Jan 24, 2011 Revisions: History of the article

  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carnegie_Mellon_University#Rankingshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carnegie_Mellon_University#Rankings Article discussion pages: Where coordination gets done

  19. Principles and policies

  20. What Wikipedia is not

  21. Creating a user account

  22. Via APS/Wikipedia Initiative http://hciresearch2.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/~rfarzan/wikipedia/tool/wsignup.php

  23. 7. Link your real name to username at

  24. Register with APSWPI http://hciresearch2.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/~rfarzan/wikipedia/tool/signup.php Register for class: CarCMU 05-32039-000-rob

  25. Create a user page & sandbox To create a subpage (e.g., sandbox): [[user:Charlottesweb28/Sandbox]] Or practice in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

  26. Start your user page by copying someone elses

  27. Editing your user page

  28. Provides a dashboard & tools for working on assignment

  29. Read the Wikipedia Tutorial • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

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