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Overview
Understanding Wikipedia
Building an Audience
Creating Slides
Do's and Don'ts
Handling Questions
Transcripts & Feedback
Upcoming presentations
Archived presentations

See also...

Wikipedia Help
Presenting the Wikimedia Foundation
Meta Project Coordination
Presentations on Meta

This is a new project page to provide recommendations to individuals giving Wikipedia--based presentations to a live audience. The purpose is to make each presentation as accurate, convenient to assemble, and as high--impact as possible. As a secondary purpose, this project page will coordinate efforts to upload transcripts, audio, and/or video of useful presentations. A Wikimania 2006 workshop is in the works.


Wikipedia article: Wikimedia Foundation Corporate Website: [1]

Understanding the Foundation

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There is a lot of behind--the--scenes activity to keep Wikipedia up and running. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non--profit organization that runs Wikipedias in dozens of languages in addition to managing major sister projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is fueling a revolution of freely--available and comprehensive educational information.

Basic Structure

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Philosophy & Activism

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  • Build by volunteers, handful of paid employees
  • Welcoming of newcomers
  • Educated world citizenry
  • Radical Openness
  • Importance of logic, anti--credentialism, constructive criticism

Foundation Events

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  • Wikimania
  • Local Meetups
  • Official Foundation Chapters

Sister Projects to Wikipedia

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  • Wikinews, Wikisource, etc...

Future Projects

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  • Purpose of Meta, Mailing Lists, IRC
  • Explanation of Principles