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<title>Open Encyclopedia</title>
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# CSCI-UA 480.10: OSSD
<br>
## Open Encyclopedia
.author[
Instructor: Joanna Klukowska <br>
]
.license[
Unless noted otherwise all content is released under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
]
---
# Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/
- "__is a free online encyclopedia with the mission of allowing anyone to create or edit articles.__ Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, and is ranked the fifth-most popular website. Wikipedia is a project owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia , retrieved Jan. 28)
- [_The Birth of Wikipedia_](https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia) - TED talk by Jimmy Wales
- [_The importance of Wikipedia_](https://opensource.com/business/11/11/importance-wikipedia), Dana Blankenhorn, Nov. 30, 2011, Opensource.com
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# Wikipedia among the top of "The top 500 sites on the web)
<img src="img/top_sites.png" width="450" >
(source: https://www.alexa.com/topsites, retrieved Jan. 28, 2018)
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# Wikimedia Foundation and their projects
Wikipedia is not the only project run by the Wikimedia Foundation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Projects_and_initiatives
Can you name a few?
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There are over ... edits to the Wikimedia projects so far (pick the closest answer).
- 1,000,000
- 10,000,000
- 100,000,000
- 1,000,000,000
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over 3,400,000,000 and going up fast, see
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/
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# Wikipedia download
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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# Contributing to Wikipedia
- how can we figure out how to cotribute to a project like Wikipedia?
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# Additional Readings
[Contributing to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia)
[Wikipedia:Cleanup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup) - minor issues that can be fixed without deeper knowledge on the subject, like broken links, incorrect formatting, etc.
[Elsavier guide to contributing](http://www.elsevier.com/authors-update/home/featured-article/irked-by-wikipedia-errors-heres-how-to-fix-them)
BBC article [Wikipedia blocks hundreds of 'scam' sock puppet accounts](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34127466) from 2015
[4 tips for creating a Wikipedia article](https://opensource.com/article/16/11/4-tips-creating-wikipedia-article)
[How WikiFundi is helping people in Africa contribute to Wikipedia](https://opensource.com/article/17/9/wikifundi-leader-florence-devouard)
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# Sources and Acknowledgements
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