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WIKIPEDIA


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AN EMERGENT MOSAIC OF WIKIPEDIAN ACTIVITY

BY BRUCE W. HERR II, TODD M. HOLLOWAY, KATY BRNER; SCHOO


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VISION

Imagine a world in which every single human being can

freely share in the sum of all knowledge.Thats what we

are doing .


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MISSION

Empower and engage people around the world to collectand develop educational content under the free license or

in the public domain and to disseminate it effectively

and globally.


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SYNOPSIS

Founder : Jimmy Wales

Launched on 15 January 2001 : Wikipedia Day

It has 3,227,997 articles, and 19,769,103 pages intotal.

There have been 374,863,736 edits.

There are 843,456 uploaded files.

There are 11,938,573 registered users,including 1,719 administrators.

Staff consist of only 39 members.


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CONTD..

It is available in more than 270 languages.

Its a project based on openly editable model.

Wikipedia's text and many of its images are dual-licensedunder the Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike 3.0Unported License .

(CC-BY-SA) and the GNUFree

documentation License (GFDL)

Most articles start as stubs,

but after many contributions,

they can become featured articles.


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WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

Its a non profit charitable organization.

HQ : SanFrancisco ,California ,U.S.

It operates several online collaborativewikiprojects.


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WIKIMEDIA ORGANIZATION CHART


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RECENT IN WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia English expanded from

1.35 lac to 32 lac articles today.

All Wikipedia languages combinely possess more than 15crore articles.

The 10thmillion article a biography of

16th

century painter Nicholas Hilliardwas published on March 27 ,2008.


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CONTD..

There are 35 very good articles which come with a

template {{vgood}}; and a star appear in the top right of

the page.

The ideal Wikipedia article is well-written, balanced,

neutral, and encyclopedic, containing comprehensive,

notable, verifiable knowledge.


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SOME PROS AND CONS

Wikipedia is open to a large contributor base, drawing a

large number of editors from diverse backgrounds.

Allowing anyone to edit, that it is more easilyvandalized or susceptible to unchecked information.

Wikipedia is written by open and transparent consensus

an approach that has its pros and cons.

Wikipedia is written largely by amateurs.


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HANDLING DISPUTES

Intentional vandalism can be reported and corrected by

anyone.

Unresolved disputes between editors :through the talkpage of an article,

Abuse of user accounts: addressed through the sock

puppet policy.


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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Relies on Individual donors.

During global economic crisis they had 93 % increase in donations.

The total number of funding sources increased to 167 % - during2008-09.

Technology, outreach and programs accounts for more than 60 % ofspending.

They exist for one reason: the free and

open sharing of knowledge.

They dont sell information and dontaccept advertising.

Our donation makes their work possible.


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CONTD.

Receives donations from more than

50 countries around the world.

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment

organization. Once a year the WikimediaFoundation makes a formal

request for donations.

It has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the U.S.

One can donate using any major credit card (includingVISA, MasterCard, Discover or American Express), PayPal,Money bookers, bank transfer, or by sending a cheque to theFoundation.


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CONTD

In 2009 it received grant from three foundation:

Stanton,F

ord, Hewlett. In 2010 : Google donated them $2 million.

The minimum donation amount is $1.

Hoping to raise $18.1 million throughout the fiscal year.


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TECHNICAL ATTRIBUTES

Complex network of 300 servers which manages up to

17,000 views per second and billions of views per month.

It has an active volunteer community fordevelopment and maintenance.

WM foundation also uses free software OTRS (open

source ticket request system ) to answer the queries of

people.


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MEDIAWIKI

Mediawiki is a software application used by all projects

of Wikimedia foundation.

It is an free and open source software. Today it has also been deployed by companies for internal

knowledge management, and as a content management

system.

The developers use mediazilla to keep track of bugs.


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COMMUNITY PORTAL

The place to find out what is happening on Wikipedia.

It consists of

Reference DeskVillage Pump

Content Dispute Guidelines.


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WIKI WORLD

Wikipedia

Wikitionary

Wikinews Wikiquote

Wikicommons

Wiki source

Wikiversity

Wikispecies Wikibooks


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WIKI PEDIA VS BRITANNICA

Wiki pedia is

dealing with

more than270languages.

It carries high

speed of errordeduction.

Britannica is dealing

with only English

language.

It carries

comparatively lowspeed.


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WIKI PEDIA VS BRITANNICA

Error rate per

article is 3.86

Wikipedia's users

are potentially

everyone on theinternet.

Error rate per article

is 2.92

It says that our

customer tend to be

knowledge andinformation seeker

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