Wikis and Wireless

Angela Beesley

October 2005

What are Wikis?

Openly editable websites

Anyone can edit (almost) any page

Typical wiki features

Recent Changes

Watchlists

Page Histories, Diffs

User Contributions

Wikimedia Foundation

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

Wikicities

Supporting commuities with wikis

Started in 2004

Currently hosts around 600 wikis

A more local approach than Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Free encyclopedia founded in 2001

Edited by volunteers using a wiki

Freely licensed under the GFDL

Being developed in over 100 languages

Wikipedia Statistics

All languages

Alexa rank of 50

2 million articles

5000 new articles per day

English version

Over 100,000 people have edited

8000 people have made over 100 edits

700 people have made over 3000 edits

Placeopedia

Separate project making use of Wikipedia.

Links Wikipedia's geographical articles to Google Earth maps, allowing visitors to add their own connections.

http://www.placeopedia.com/

Copyright

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this presentation under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be read at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.

This presentation includes screenshots from websites under the terms of this license. The original articles, a list of authors of that content, and site disclaimers, can be found via the following URLs:

* wikimedia.org

* www.wikicities.com

* minneapolis.wikicities.com

* en.wikipedia.org

* www.wikipedia.org

* ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ミネソタ州

* he.wikipedia.org/wiki/מינסוטה

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkytown

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Avenue

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_Melon

* www.placeopedia.com

Contact

Angela Beesley can be contacted by email at angela@wikimedia.org.

Angela Beesley

2005-10-04T00:13:11