1. Wikipedia & the Wikimedia Foundation

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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:
- September 2014, global visitors on desktop
- September 2014, global pageviews for all Wikimedia projects
- September 2014, Active = 5+ edits per month
- December 2014, total edits
- September 2014, total number of articles for all Wikipedias
- September 2014, all Wikipedias, mainspace only
- September 2014, all Wikipedias

5. Navigating Wikipedia

6. Navigating Wikipedia

7. Navigating Wikipedia

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

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

13. 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

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

15. 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)

16. 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

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

18. Thank you. Contact us! education@wikimedia.org
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