Wikipedia: Successful Against All Odds Jos Damen (African Studies Centre, Leiden) Librarian, ardent Wikipedian and project leader of Wikipedians in Special.

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Wikipedia: Successful Against All Odds Jos Damen (African Studies Centre, Leiden) Librarian, ardent Wikipedian and project leader of Wikipedians in Special Residence (with 12 Dutch heritage institutions) 17th International Conference on Grey Literature - Amsterdam 1 Dec. 2015

Wikipedia: overview Started January 15, 2001 Name: Wiki (website type / “quick” (Hawaian) + encyclopedia Jimmy Wales and/vs. Larry Singer 2015: 290 language editions / 130,000 active editors Wiki-EN 5M articles, Wiki-SV 2M, Wiki-DE / NL 1,8M articles 18 billion page views per month, 500M unique visitors p.m. Only non-commercial website in top-10 popular websites

Criticism Not written by experts (“the lunatics have taken over the asylum”) Peer review by everyone Lack of accuracy Coherence & quality of writing Coverage of topics Vandalism

Success factors Free access Easy interface Google ranking Understandable language Mass (37M articles) Anyone can edit Clear structure / all edits visible Prizes (Erasmus Prize 2015) -> credibility

1 article, 100 versions

Images: Wikimedia Commons 29M “free” images Wiki loves monuments 2015: 230,000 photos

Wikipedian in Residence & GLAM First Wikipedian in Residence (2010): British Museum 100. Wikipedian in Residence (2015/16): Bodleian Libraries Awareness, uploads, (much) more usage (x1000) GLAM-NL: 750,000 uploaded images Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: approx. 480,000 photographs Naturalis: approx. 75,000 images Tropenmuseum: approx. 50,000 photographs Nationaal Archief (esp. from the Anefo collection): approx. 20,000 photographs Rijksmuseum: approx. 15,000 images

More Wiki’s & copyright WikiSource (>1M books) WikiData (structured data, -> bots) Copyright: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-4.0

Grey organizations & Wiki Look at related Wiki-entries -> facts, images, links Think about image donations Look at your own collection from the outside Beware of POV Respect copyright No link spam

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