User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/MPI-ICE 2012/Wikimedia projects

Abstract

Start

Q & A

Motivation

Theory

Wikimedia

WM & Science

CE @ WM

ICE & WM

Summary

Q & A

Open Access

Open Science

Notes

Workshop

Wikimedia projects Logos of Wikimedia projects, with Wikidata missing. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania, Wikibooks, Meta-Wiki, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia. Not yet included is Wikidata. Logo of the Wikidata project, a collaboratively editable database from where information can be pulled into infoboxes and other data elements in Wikimedia projects, regardless of language. Overview of Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Foundation's mission: "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally" A whole set of collaborative platforms that channel and structure information in different ways. Wikipedia: encyclopedia Wiktionary: dictionary Wikiquote: quotes Wikisource: sources Wikibooks: books Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies: species Wikinews: news Wikiversity: university coursework Wikidata: data Most of them are multilingual. All have their own communities. Lots of interaction between them. Wikimedia CH Wikimedia Deutschland Wikimedia UK Wikimedia India