Overview presentation of Wikipedia and Wikimedia, geared towards librarians

1. this movement:
the past, present & future of
Wikipedia
Phoebe Ayers
Wikimedia Foundation
UC Davis Libraries

2. 1. Edit this movement

3. Taipei, Wikimania 2007

4. Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely
share in the sum of all
knowledge.
- Wikimedia’s vision statement

6. inter-language
links

14. Wikimedia is global
Wikimedia chapters, 2013 (dark blue = founded)

15. What is Wikimedia?
12 projects
280 languages
25 million Wikipedia articles
18 million media files
 100,000 active editors
 100s of local meetup groups
 38 local/national level chapters
 150 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation, San
Francisco
 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in 2011-12)
 500,000,000 readers

16. The cultivated person’s first duty
is to always be prepared to
rewrite the encyclopedia.
-Umberto Eco

17. Wikimania 2005

19. [[user:Walkerma]]

20. Bangalore, 2010

21. Wikimania, Buenos Aires 2009

22. David Ferrieio, Wikimania 2012

23. Wikimania, Haifa 2011

24. • Free [to use and reuse]
• Volunteer-written
• Supported by readers
• Everyone can participate
• Neutral, encyclopedic, factual
• No top down editorial control:
• Community curated work
Values

26. 2. How Wikipedia Works
Or: what is there to do today?

32. History of an article

33. compare
Date of edit
username
Their other contributions
Edit summary
Revision of an article – one “edit”

34. Evaluating an article

35. Becoming an editor

36. …saving an edit

37. Why bother?

38. 3. Wikimedia and libraries

39. Add a reference

40. Information literacy

41. Wikipedia in the classroom

42. Wikipedians in libraries
Edit-a-thon, Multnomah County Library, 2012

43. Opening the world’s archives

44. “GLAM”

45. Edit this page

46. 4. The future

47. Planning for the next 10 years

50. Bridging the gender gap

51. Contributors everywhere

52. And readers, too
Kenya, OLPC school project

53. Keeping knowledge free
SOPA blackout, Jan 18 2012

54. Thank you
psayers@ucdavis.edu