1. Tajik Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia http://tg.wikipedia.org Ibrahim Rustamov Note: To view pages on the Internet properly with all Tajik letters, please use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

2. What is Wikipedia? Freely licensed encyclopedia Available in more than 100 languages Tajik (tg), English (en), de, fr, … Written by volunteers The English edition started 15/01/2001 http://www.wikipedia.org/

3. Tajik Wikipedia’s Main Page

4. Statistics

5. Recent changes

6. Reading Tajik Wikipedia

7. Editing Tajik Wikipedia

8. Editing Tajik Wikipedia - Editor Editing Wikipedia articles with easy to use wiki editor which supports all languages and scripts

9. How Wikipedia Works Each registered user has a user page with talk page Every page contains an “edit” link Page history: revisions, authors, diffs Recent changes, watched pages Categories, what links here, … 9 / 20

10. Wikipedia User Page

11. Rules Basic rules Neutral Point of View (NPOV) Citing reliable sources Free content (GNU FDL) CC-BY-SA 3.0 License

12. Vandalism Everybody can edit Wikipedia, sadly not all users create good articles or improve existing ones Easily reverting changes through history Sysops No power, only technical measures Deleting pages, blocking vandals, protecting pages, simplified reverting

13. Administration

14. Official recent statistics

15. Tajik Wikipedia Growth Rate January 2013: 11.000 articles

16. Page Views on Tajik Wikipedia April 2008: 654.000

17. Growth rate, financing and participation in Wikipedia Wikipedia projects grow very quickly Voluntary donations, sponsoring, grants etc. Absolutely no advertising at the moment Participation is free and none of Wikipedia users get paid or pay for participation Participation is voluntary on Wikipedia which is a platform for free learning and “networking”.

18. For users Use of the encyclopedia as a free platform for learning, creating articles and improving existing ones; Active participation in discussions of articles, rules and projects; Organization of local groups of wikipedians at universities and schools; Initiation and participation in conferences related to Wikipedia and related projects

19. Knowledge should be free… Thank you for your attention Ibrahim Rustamov http://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ibrahim