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Reusing Contents On Wikimedia: Notes
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Reusing Contents on Wikimedia
By Jeromy-Yu Chan, ARAD
President, Wikimedia Hong Kong
Communications Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
Where to find stuffs can use?
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages
Wikimedia Commons
Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than
1,000,000 files.
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikisource
Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
Wikimedia Hong Kong
A Local chapter of Wikimedia in the town, where you can find us.
What you are going to reuse?
Texts?
Other Media
Reusing the Texts
All texts in Wikimedia Projects released in a dual-license environment, that
means re-users can choose either Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike
License or GNU Free Documentation License.
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HONG KONG
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Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either
by including
a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using,
b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is
freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the
authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website
c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or
irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikimedia
community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution
requirements to the work, which we will strive to indicate clearly to you. For
example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of
its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are
visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.
Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use,
you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
or later.
Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a
reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page
in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.
Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a
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If you choose GFDL, you may have to print out the whole license once when use
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Reusing the other media
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Wikimedia Foundation Licensing Policy. Please view the media description page for
details about the license of any specific media file. For example
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GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
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Creative Commons
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GNU General Public License (GPL) / GNU Lesser General Public License
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Free Art License
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Appendix: WikiMedia & Wiki 101
Wikipedia is
Wiki+encyclopedia
The so-called “Free” Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages
English edition launched 5-Jan-2001
as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct
encyclopedia
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia
www.wikimedia.hk
4. WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG LIMITED
P.O. Box 73859
KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
香港九龍中央郵政局
郵政信箱 73859 號
香港維基媒體協會有限公司
A Charity registered in Hong Kong No. 91/9316 E-mail: info@wikimedia.hk
Chinese Wikipedia(維基百科)…
Established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001
24-Oct-2002 User:Mountain created the first page, Main Page
27-Oct-2002 A software update for Chinese input & domain zh.wikipedia.org
17-Nov-2002 First real article: Computer science (計算機科學)
Current Usage of Wikipedia
Reference
Research
Extensive reading
Entertainment & Infotainment
Writing & Translating Exercise
Community & Socializing
Compare with counterparts
Britannica online
MSN Encarta
Have to pay for premium
Citizendium
opened in Mar-2007 by Larry Sanger
Article will be reviewed by experts
Baidu Baike (百度百科)
hosted by search engine Baidu
Pro-CCP point of view
Plagiarism of content on Chinese Wikipedia
www.wikimedia.hk
5. WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG LIMITED
P.O. Box 73859
KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
香港九龍中央郵政局
郵政信箱 73859 號
香港維基媒體協會有限公司
A Charity registered in Hong Kong No. 91/9316 E-mail: info@wikimedia.hk
Wikimedia
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.
From Article II of Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Wikimedia Timeline
Nupedia Wikipedia Wikimedia
Mar-2000 Jan-2001 Jun-2003
Wikimedia Projects
Wiktionary
Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.
Wikibooks
Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
Wikisource
Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
Wikimedia Commons
Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than
1,000,000 files.
Wikispecies
Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and
all other forms of life.
Wikinews
News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many
countries
www.wikimedia.hk
6. WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG LIMITED
P.O. Box 73859
KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
香港九龍中央郵政局
郵政信箱 73859 號
香港維基媒體協會有限公司
A Charity registered in Hong Kong No. 91/9316 E-mail: info@wikimedia.hk
Wikiversity
Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been
officially decided on its structure
Administrative Wikis
Meta-Wiki
Coordination between different Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Incubator
Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing
projects.
Wikimedia Foundation
Not Wikipedia Foundation
The Resolution of it affects everyone
Headquarters in San Francisco
Chair: Michael Snow
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. (Wikipedia,
2007)
Brief History
WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki
Ward Cunningham, Its founder
Started development in 1994
installed it online 25-Mar-1995
"wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "quick"
Cunningham name the system after a shuttle bus line that runs between the
terminals in Honolulu International Airport
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7. WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG LIMITED
P.O. Box 73859
KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
香港九龍中央郵政局
郵政信箱 73859 號
香港維基媒體協會有限公司
A Charity registered in Hong Kong No. 91/9316 E-mail: info@wikimedia.hk
Types of Wikis
As the graph on the left
By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)
MediaWiki is the program behind the Wikipedia,
and other Wikimedia Projects
Why wikis are so special
Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)
Openness
Peering
Sharing
Acting Globally
Logs
Revision History
Recent Changes
Full of Interlinks
New Style of Mark-up language
Current Usage
Information sharing in Global scale like Wikimedia
As Content management system in some institutions & communities-of-practice
Some wikis developed their own communities-of-practice……..
New Trends……
Conclusions
Glossary
Wikipedia (and not The Wikipedia) is the encyclopedia project by Wikimedia.
The Wikimedia Foundation, based in the United States, is the nonprofit
corporation that maintains the project
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8. WIKIMEDIA HONG KONG LIMITED
P.O. Box 73859
KOWLOON CENTRAL POST OFFICE
HONG KONG
香港九龍中央郵政局
郵政信箱 73859 號
香港維基媒體協會有限公司
A Charity registered in Hong Kong No. 91/9316 E-mail: info@wikimedia.hk
Wikimedia is collective noun refer to all projects run by Wikimedia Foundation,
that means all Wikipedia’s sister projects and herself
A wiki is the generic term for web site that anyone can edit, which may run
MediaWiki or any of many dozens of other wiki software packages.
MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs Wikipedia, and many other
independent sites.
Examples of proper usage
RIGHT: "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."
WRONG: "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."
RIGHT: "The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new project today."
WRONG: "The Wikipedia Foundation announced a new project today.“
Changes brings by Wikis
Instant Reference VS traditional Looking up
Commons Sense VS Expertise
2-Way-Learning VS Single-Way
Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006) VS Individual labour
Openness
Peering
Sharing
Acting Globally
Reference
KaurJmeb, Presentation materials for National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, 2006
KaurJmeb, 維基百科攻略: 分享知識最前線, Pcuser, 2006
W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, Student Journalists Acceptance on Collaborative Writing Wikis, IRMA, 2007
D. Tapscott & A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , Portfolio, 2006
Wikimedia Foundation, Materials on its Projects, 2009
Note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).
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