Do you know Wikipedia?

No.

WikiIndaba, Johannesburg 21/06/2014

Wikipedia has 500 million readers.

How about the other 6.5 billion people?

Protester holding sign at 15 March 2008 anti-Scientology protest in Atlanta, Georgia. Sign modified by Chmee2.

Wikipedia Edit Wikipedia !

(maybe)

Possible access to Wikipedia

Find Wikipedia

Use Wikipedia

Happy

mmm… (omissions, mistakes)

Go elsewhere

Edit Wikipedia

Happy with it?

Involved in Wikimedia offline events-training

Contribute to Wikimedia offline

Projects

Payed staff

Existing content

Payed staff

Donation?

Better Wikipedia

Open licenses

Managed Wikipedia

You have access to the Internet, a smart phone, a mobile phone, a computer

Reading Wikipedia

is a form of legitimate peripheral participation through which individuals gain entrée and

can move towards more active participation

Antin, J. & Cheshire, C., 2010. Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. S W ’10. New Yo k, NY, USA: A M, pp. 127–130.

What is Wikipedia about?

WikiAfrica Cameroun, 2012-2013.

Photo by Sandrine Dole, 2010, cc by-sa

What is Wikipedia about?

What is Wikipedia about – according to where you are?

Piracy

Access to the Internet

Access to the Internet through mobile phone

Access to content

FreeGratis

Informal economy

Volunteers

School books

Development projects

Education

Cooperation for development

Something useful

Copyright

Copyleft

Offline access to Wikipedia

Wikipedia zero

Sharing

Education system

Wikipedia

WikimediaWikipediaWikimedia

GovernmentFreedom of expression

CensorshipControl

Cooperation rhetoric ChildrenStable Internet connection

Electricity

School

FunCuriosity

What content

Useful

MouvementIdeology

Piracy

Access to the Internet

Access to the Internet through mobile phone

Access to content

FreeGratis

Informal economy

Volunteers

School books

Development projects

Education

Cooperation for development

Something useful

Copyright

Copyleft

Offline access to Wikipedia

Wikipedia zero

Sharing

Education system

WikipediaWikimedia

WikipediaWikimedia

GovernmentFreedom of expression

CensorshipControl

Cooperation rhetoric ChildrenStable Internet connection

Electricity

School

FunCuriosity

What content

Useful

MouvementIdeology

WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

19WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

20WIKI BD, Bibi Benzo, 2014, cc by-sa.

CKOI, 2014. Director and script Mike Epacka; film-maker Regis Talla

CKOI, 2014. Director and script Mike Epacka; film-maker Regis Talla

Wikipedia

Reading Wikipedia is a form of legitimate peripheral participation through which individuals gain entrée and

can move towards more active participation

Antin, J. & Cheshire, C., 2010. Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. S W ’10. New Yo k, NY, USA: A M, pp. 127–130.

Image. DensityDesign Research Lab-INDACO Department Politecnico di Milano, Share Your Knowledge, 2011-2012, cc by-sa.

Iolanda Pensa - io@pensa.it - http://io.pensa.it Johannesburg, June 2014.