User:Lionel Scheepmans/Wikimedia Presentation

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 Wikipedia:About Wikipedia history

How works Wikipedia ? Pillars, policies and guidelines Lack of awareness or notoriety, unpublished work, dictionary content and so on ... N Encyclopaedic content Y Auto-promotion, hidden advertisement, fanaticism... N Neutral point of view Y Copyrighted content or incompatibility with free license ... N Respect of the licence Y Lack of etiquette, personal attacks, insults ... N Civility Y Content without reference to a recognized source of information N Verifiability Y Control tools Recents changes RTRC Watchlist Bots

Who builds the encyclopedia ?

The Wikimédia Fondation Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects: Commons Free media repository MediaWiki Wiki software development Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikinews Free-content news Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikispecies Directory of species Wikiversity Free learning tools Wikivoyage Free travel guide Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus 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

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

And you ? Are you interested to contribute and share the Wikimedia's vision of the world ? >Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Others useful links in context of a Wikimedia activities presentation Pdf and other text & image file : Listes des listes de présentations dans toutes les langues sur Meta-Wiki Wikipedia:Presentations Video : 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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