User:Lionel Scheepmans/Wikimedia Presentation

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Wikipédia, history and prehistory

 * The Universal bibliographic directory : a « Google » around 1900




 * Paul Otlet's vision in Traité de documentation (1934 p.435)




 * The rise of the personal computer (1981)




 * Free software movement   initiation    by Richard Stallman (1983)




 * Internet creation (1961 - 1992)




 * Wiki invention by Ward Cunningham (1995)




 * Wikipédia creation by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (2001)




 * The diminution of editor's participations




 * The augmentation of article's quality


 * More details :


 * History of Wikipedia in a 2'30 ''video
 * About
 * Wikipedia history


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How works Wikipedia ?
Pillars, policies and guidelines




 * Encyclopaedic content






 * Neutral point of view






 * Respect of the licence

cc-by-sa 3.0




 * Civility






 * Verifiability



Control tools




 * Recents changes
 * RTRC
 * Watchlist
 * Bots


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Who builds the encyclopedia ?





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The Wikimédia Fondation



 * Inside_Wikimedia_01-13-09_big.ogg




 * 10 persons on the board (2014)
 * 24 persons on the board of trustees (2014)
 * 224 employés (2014)
 * 41 National associations with 1 to 70 employees (2014)
 * 6 701 913 registered users and potentially actives on Meta - Wiki


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The issue of Wikimedia Foundation

 * Be an Expert on Anything
 * Stephen Colbert in Wired Magazine (August 2006).


 * Wikipedia – an unplanned miracle
 * Clay Shirky in The gardien (14 January 2011).




 * "The struggle between proprietary software and free software was the kick-off of the central conflict of the time. [...] From this struggle will depend civilized or barbaric exit of capitalism."
 * André Gorz in Le travail dans la sortie du capitalisme (2008)

Protests against SOPA and PIPA


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Others useful links in context of a Wikimedia activities presentation
Pdf and other text & image file :

Video :
 * Listes des listes de présentations dans toutes les langues sur Meta-Wiki
 * Presentations


 * Vidéo faite sur le thème « L'impacte de Wikipédia ».
 * La WikiGuida di Wikipedia (Guide d'utilisation de Wikipedia en Italien)
 * How to Create a Wikipedia Article (Comment créer un article en anglais)
 * Liste de tutoriels vidéos en anglais sur MetaWiki


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