Wikipedia. How it works and why it works

1. Wikipedia. How it works and why it works?

Buharina Nadya
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2. History

3. Background

III century BC - library of Alexandria.
II century BC - library in Pergamum.
77 BC – "Natural history" of Pliny the Elder.
1407 The Yongle Encyclopedia.
1751-80 - "encyclopedia, or Explanatory dictionary of Sciences,
arts and crafts" (D. Diderot and J. L. D'alembert).
1930-40-s – idea electronic encyclopedia (the Departure Floor, G.
wells, V. Bush).
1979 – the idea of the Handbook that anyone can write (Douglas
Adams, "the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy")
1993 – first electronic encyclopedia (MS Encarta).
1999 – the idea of a free universal encyclopedia (Richard
Stallman).

4. Nupedia

Джимми
Уэйлс
Ларри
Сэнгер
In 2000 was opened the free
encyclopedia "Nupedia".
The texts for the encyclopedia are
written by experts and carefully
checked by editors.

5. Technology wiki

•In the late 1980-ies started to develop
the concept of the wiki.
Уорд
Каннингем
In 1995 he opened the first website in the
world working on this technology "the
Portland store samples" of code.

6. January 15 2001 was opened on Wikipedia

By the end of 2001 Wikipedia was already in 18
languages and contained more than 20,000
articles.

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8. Languages

Today Wikipedia is created in 284 languages
Number of articles:
English - 3 860 000
German – 1 360 000
French - 1 210 000
Dutch – 1 020 000
Italian – 890 000
Polish – 880 000
Spanish – 860 000
Russian – 820 000
Total articles: 21 100 000

9. The Rules Of Wikipedia

The basic rule of Wikipedia says...
Ignore all rules that prevent you from
improving Wikipedia, or to support its
operation.

10. 5 pillars

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia adheres to a neutral point
of view.
Wikipedia content is free to use.
Wikipedia has a set of rules of
conduct.
Wikipedia has strict rules.

11. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia

It is not Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is not the place to advertise.
Wikipedia is not a tribune.
Wikipedia is not a social experiment.
Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate
dump of information.
Wikipedia is not a links directory.
Wikipedia is not a collection of
documents.
Wikipedia is not a newspaper.

12. Проверяемость

Все факты в статье
должны
подкрепляться
ссылками на
авторитетные
источники.
Википедия не содержит ошибок вообще и ей
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14. The Wikipedia editing community

Registered: > 33 million people.
Active participants: ~ 300 thousand people.

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16. Wikimedia Commons

Established in September 2004.
Contains over 12 million media files.