User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk slides

This is a summary of the slides to be used at the BBC talk. Several of them are from my talk and Erik's talk in Berlin. See also User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk


 * Title slide -- "Speakers today" -- who are we?


 * What's a wiki? "ATTENTION WIKIPEDIA!" quote


 * What's a wiki? bullet points with explanation
 * How many wikis? bullet points with explanation


 * What's Wikipedia?
 * Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
 * 750,000 articles total
 * 275,000 English
 * 100,000 German
 * 150,000 images
 * Open content (FDL)
 * Founded January 2001
 * Organized in Wikimedia Foundation

Some problem areas

Accuracy Wikiquette Neutrality Trolling Edit wars Organization Performance

Why do we need an open encyclopedia?

Why do we need an open encyclopedia?

"Perpetuation of ignorance     is the beginning of slavery" --Eben Moglen

Initial goals of encyclopedists

Collect "sum of all human knowledge" Only now do we have the tools to do that

(the following slides are from my talk, the ones above are from Erik's talk) Free Knowledge: The Practical Revolution

How Wikimedia is changing the world

Jimbo Wales

Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia June 12, 2004

Our mission

Free knowledge for everyone on the planet Empowering volunteers to build the information commons Atmosphere of love and respect Objectivity, neutrality, accuracy

Our success so far

Largest English encyclopedia More popular than Britannica online More inclusive and more balanced Several successful spin-offs First WikiReaders

The death of a Cathedral ..

Nupedia: 1999-2001 (+)

.. and the birth of a Bazaar

Our goals for Wikipedia

Develop systematic peer review process Increase stability and performance By late 2004 CD-ROM or DVD edition By October 2005: Concise desk reference Long term Get Wikipedia into developing countries Use donated computers, print edition

Sister projects

Wiktionary "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" Wikibooks "Wikipedia is not a place for HOW-TOs" Wikisource "Wikipedia is not a source repository" Wikiquote "Wikipedia is not a collection of quotations" Meta-Wiki "Wikipedia is not Wikimedia"

Our goals for Wikimedia

Build successful fundraising campaigns Create chapters in every nation Get involved in issues which concern us                ... and which we can agree on

Future projects

Wikimedia Commons and Single Sign-On Pictures, sounds, videos Wikinews WikiAtlas Open process for proposing new projects

Imagine a world where every single person is given free access to the sum of human knowledge.

We don't have to imagine it.

We're doing it.