Reusing Contents On Wikimedia: Notes

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Reusing Contents on Wikimedia

By Jeromy-Yu Chan, ARAD

President, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Communications Committee, Wikimedia Foundation

Where to find stuffs can use?
 Wikipedia
 Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages
 Wikimedia Commons
 Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than
1,000,000 files.
 Wikiquote
 Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
 Wikisource
 Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
 Wikimedia Hong Kong
 A Local chapter of Wikimedia in the town, where you can find us.

What you are going to reuse?
 Texts?
 Other Media
Reusing the Texts
 All texts in Wikimedia Projects released in a dual-license environment, that
means re-users can choose either Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike
License or GNU Free Documentation License.

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 Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either
by including
 a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using,
 b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is
freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the
authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website
 c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or
irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikimedia
community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution
requirements to the work, which we will strive to indicate clearly to you. For
example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of
its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are
visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.
 Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use,
you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
or later.
 Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a
reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page
in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.
 Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a
licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-SA and either a) a
hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a
suitable URL is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
 For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC-BY-SA License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
 If you choose GFDL, you may have to print out the whole license once when use
as a printed out version.

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Reusing the other media
 non-text media files are available under various free culture licenses, consistent with the
Wikimedia Foundation Licensing Policy. Please view the media description page for
details about the license of any specific media file. For example
 Creative Commons
 GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
 GNU General Public License (GPL) / GNU Lesser General Public License
(LGPL)
 Free Art License
 Creative Commons, GFDL,GPL and LGPL licenses, please refer the parts above
 To benefit from the Free Art License, you only need to mention the following elements
on your work: [Name of the author, title, date of the work. When applicable, names of
authors of the common work and, if possible, where to find the originals].
All these Licenses need attributions
 Creative Commons
 GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
 GNU General Public License (GPL) / GNU Lesser General Public License
(LGPL)
 Free Art License
 For text contents, look for Cite this page on the sidebar of Wikimedia pages

Appendix: WikiMedia & Wiki 101

Wikipedia is
 Wiki+encyclopedia
 The so-called “Free” Encyclopedia
 Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages
 English edition launched 5-Jan-2001
 as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct
encyclopedia
 Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia

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Chinese Wikipedia(維基百科)…
 Established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001
 24-Oct-2002 User:Mountain created the first page, Main Page
 27-Oct-2002 A software update for Chinese input & domain  zh.wikipedia.org
 17-Nov-2002 First real article: Computer science (計算機科學)

Current Usage of Wikipedia
 Reference
 Research
 Extensive reading
 Entertainment & Infotainment
 Writing & Translating Exercise
 Community & Socializing

Compare with counterparts
 Britannica online
 MSN Encarta
 Have to pay for premium
 Citizendium
 opened in Mar-2007 by Larry Sanger
 Article will be reviewed by experts
 Baidu Baike (百度百科)
 hosted by search engine Baidu
 Pro-CCP point of view
 Plagiarism of content on Chinese Wikipedia

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Wikimedia
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is 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.
From Article II of Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Wikimedia Timeline
Nupedia  Wikipedia  Wikimedia
Mar-2000  Jan-2001  Jun-2003

Wikimedia Projects
 Wiktionary
 Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.
 Wikibooks
 Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials
 Wikiquote
 Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.
 Wikisource
 Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.
 Wikimedia Commons
 Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than
1,000,000 files.
 Wikispecies
 Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and
all other forms of life.
 Wikinews
 News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many
countries



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 Wikiversity
 Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been
officially decided on its structure
Administrative Wikis
 Meta-Wiki
 Coordination between different Wikimedia projects
 Wikimedia Incubator
 Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing
projects.

Wikimedia Foundation
 Not Wikipedia Foundation
 The Resolution of it affects everyone
 Headquarters in San Francisco
 Chair: Michael Snow

Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. (Wikipedia,
2007)

Brief History
 WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki
 Ward Cunningham, Its founder
 Started development in 1994
 installed it online 25-Mar-1995
 "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "quick"
 Cunningham name the system after a shuttle bus line that runs between the
terminals in Honolulu International Airport

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Types of Wikis

As the graph on the left
By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)
MediaWiki is the program behind the Wikipedia,
and other Wikimedia Projects

Why wikis are so special
 Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)
 Openness
 Peering
 Sharing
 Acting Globally
 Logs
 Revision History
 Recent Changes
 Full of Interlinks
 New Style of Mark-up language

Current Usage
 Information sharing in Global scale like Wikimedia
 As Content management system in some institutions & communities-of-practice
 Some wikis developed their own communities-of-practice……..
 New Trends……

Conclusions
Glossary
 Wikipedia (and not The Wikipedia) is the encyclopedia project by Wikimedia.
 The Wikimedia Foundation, based in the United States, is the nonprofit
corporation that maintains the project

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 Wikimedia is collective noun refer to all projects run by Wikimedia Foundation,
that means all Wikipedia’s sister projects and herself
 A wiki is the generic term for web site that anyone can edit, which may run
MediaWiki or any of many dozens of other wiki software packages.
 MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs Wikipedia, and many other
independent sites.
Examples of proper usage
 RIGHT: "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."
 WRONG: "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."
 RIGHT: "The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new project today."
 WRONG: "The Wikipedia Foundation announced a new project today.“
Changes brings by Wikis
 Instant Reference VS traditional Looking up
 Commons Sense VS Expertise
 2-Way-Learning VS Single-Way
 Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006) VS Individual labour
 Openness
 Peering
 Sharing
 Acting Globally

Reference
 KaurJmeb, Presentation materials for National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, 2006
 KaurJmeb, 維基百科攻略: 分享知識最前線, Pcuser, 2006
 W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, Student Journalists Acceptance on Collaborative Writing Wikis, IRMA, 2007
 D. Tapscott & A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , Portfolio, 2006
 Wikimedia Foundation, Materials on its Projects, 2009

Note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

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