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Wikipedia & the Wikimedia Foundation

Raja Ampat Islands, Jonathan Chase, CC BY-SA 2.5 Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. -Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

What is Wikipedia? An online encyclopedia Internet's largest and most popular general reference work Free-access, free content Sixth-most popular website worldwide Anyone can edit

Numbers 33.5 million articles 288 languages > 4.6 million articles on English Wikipedia > 300,000 new articles per month 75,786 active editors 2.3 billion edits per month > 10,000 edits per hour 440 million unique visitors per month 23.2 billion pageviews Notes: http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/unique_visitors - September 2014, global visitors on desktop http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/pageviews - September 2014, global pageviews for all Wikimedia projects https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikimediaAllProjects.htm - September 2014, Active = 5+ edits per month http://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/ - December 2014, total edits https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:ALL-WP-COUNT - September 2014, total number of articles for all Wikipedias http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/edits - September 2014, all Wikipedias, mainspace only https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm - September 2014, all Wikipedias

Navigating Wikipedia

Navigating Wikipedia

Navigating Wikipedia

How does Wikipedia work? Wikipedia is written by the editing community 70,000+ volunteer editors 41 chapters and 23 user groups Disseminate knowledge Promote participation Share cultural heritage Anybody can become a volunteer editor Guiding principles: the five pillars

Wikipedia’s Five Pillars These guiding principles are key to how Wikipedia works. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia Wikipedia has a neutral point of view Wikipedia is free content Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner Wikipedia does not have firm rules

Policies and Guidelines Verifiability WP:V No original research WP:PSTS Plagiarism WP:Plag

Secondary sources WP:PSTS Consensus WP:Con Assume good faith WP:AGF

Wikibooks Wikiversity Wiktionary Wikisource Wikimedia Commons Related Wikimedia projects (besides Wikipedia) Wikibooks Wikiversity Wiktionary Wikisource Wikimedia Commons

Wikibooks wikibooks.org Collaboratively written books (NOT older books out of copyright) Free content textbooks Children’s books Cookbooks Examples Bourne shell scripting How to build a pinewood derby car Recreational ice figure skating

Wikiversity wikiversity.org Learning materials Research Used by some universities Examples: Nonlinear finite elements Introduction to swedish

Wiktionary wiktionary.org Free online dictionary About 3.75 million entries in the English version On English, for instance, the word can be from any language, but the definition is in English (i.e. Bardolater or Carpe Diem)

Wikisource wikisource.org A free library. Source texts previously published by any author: Translations of original texts Historical documents of national or international interest Bibliographies of authors whose works are in Wikisource

Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org 20 million media files (photos, videos, sound files, etc) Examples: 2013 Picture of the Year 2010 Picture of the Year

Thank you. Contact us! education@wikimedia.org By Lane Hartwell via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0