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[[ Wikipedia 101 ]]

[[ Wikipedia 101 ]]. [[en:user:Phoebe_Ayers]] [[California Library Association]] [[November 13, 2006]] . Part 1: the past What is it? How did it get so big?! Why are we talking about this?. What is it?. “The free encyclopedia” But also:

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[[ Wikipedia 101 ]]

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  1. [[Wikipedia 101]] [[en:user:Phoebe_Ayers]] [[California Library Association]] [[November 13, 2006]]

  2. Part 1: the pastWhat is it? How did it get so big?! Why are we talking about this?

  3. What is it? • “The free encyclopedia” But also: • Related to wiki-dictionaries, textbooks and citizen journalism • A place to find open-source media • A reference desk • A huge community • One of the world’s most popular websites • A site with a mission

  4. Wikipedia basics • GNU/GFDL licensed content: free as in beer and free as in speech • Open to all and editable by anyone • Edit anonymously or with an account • Funded mostly (>80%) by individual donations • Tiny budget and 3 paid employees

  5. Why is Wikipedia special? • Multilingualism/multiculturalism • People are using it • Astonishing size • It’s remarkably good • Fundamental change to information production, dissemination, and authority: • You’ve never seen anything like this before, ever

  6. Why? “Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge… That’s what we’re doing.” -- Jimmy Wales

  7. Wikipedia is “more popular” than… • Ask Jeeves • Altavista • Google UK, Japan, and other local Googles • Amazon.com • CNN, BBC and the NY Times • Slashdot.org • Britannica.com (100x more popular) • AOL

  8. A sense of size… • 1.5 Million+ articles in English • 6M+ pages in English • 20,000+ active users, 2.5m accounts • Over 5M articles total (all languages) • Average article has been edited 14 times+ • 24,000+ requests a second for all projects Based on WP:Statistics, Erik Zachte’s scripts and Samuel Klein’s estimations of Dec 2005

  9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:English-language-wikipedia-.pnghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:English-language-wikipedia-.png

  10. The future • Wikipedia 1.0 • Verifiability • Is Wikipedia sustainable?

  11. Wikipedia and Librarians • Talk to your patrons • Gateway source • Not uniformly reviewed • May be inaccurate • Check cataloging • Just another source…

  12. Evaluationcriteria • Edit history – how many, who • References • Text style – wikified? Follows formatting conventions? • Verifiable?

  13. What can an info pro do? • Edit • Add sources! • Categorize • Provide input … • For instance, citation format proposal

  14. How? • Create an account • Dive in… • Start with topics you love • Participate in clean-up or fact-check projects • Tap into the community • Be bold!

  15. Beautiful things… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_energy

  16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Pa_In

  17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom

  18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moth

  19. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_turtle

  20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tanganyika

  21. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate

  22. Questions? Phoebe Ayerspsayers@ucdavis.eduhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Phoebe Ayers

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