WIKIMEDIA,MEDIAWIKI

& EDUCATION IN IT

By Jérômy Chan for MIT6108, CUHK30-May-2007

1This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

The Honorary Guest•LAM King Man, Encyclopædist

• Administrator (Sysop)• President, PC of Wikimedia Hong Kong• Working in Social Welfare Sector

Wikipedians in front of You

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The Speaker•Jérômy Maximilien Yu CHAN

• Senior Chief Editor• Administrator (Sysop)• MPC, Wikimedia Hong Kong• Year 1 Student of HKSYU

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A wiki-15/16

A small quiz first…

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15. The Wikipedia Foundation16. The Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia is run by….

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15. a wiki 16. a mediawiki

John set up…for his students

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15. It’s true16. It’s false

All words on Wikipedia are always NPOV.

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15. All Wikis16. Some wikis

…are non-profit making & NPOV.

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15. There may be16. There’s always

…a wikipedian in any country.

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15. All of the16. Most of the

…Wikipedians are male creatures.

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15. Collectors16. Creators

Wikipedians are knowledge…

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15. Have16. Haven’t

Administrators … excessive powers on editing.

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THE WORDPLAY OF THE TITLE

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Wikimedia & MediaWiki

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Wikimedia Collaboration of projects that runs by

Wikimedia Foundation Like Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc

MediaWiki software which Wikimedia Projects runs on A typical Software that powers a wiki

By KaurJmeb , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

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WIKIMEDIA 101

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海納百川，有容乃大

The Motto of Chinese Wikipedia

語出林則徐贈廣州越華書院之對聯

Mar-1839

Wikipedia

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Wikipedia

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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

English Version

Wikipedia

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One of the founders of Wikipedia, while he talked for CWMC 2006 in CUHK, by Theodoranian Tang, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa-nc)

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales

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Chinese Wikipedia

Established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001

did not support Chinese characters 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 )

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Main page of Chinese Wikipedia

維基百科

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Wikipedians’ Community

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Hong Kong First gathering 18-Sept-2005 CWMC 2006 Aug-2006 Gathering & Expedition Wikimedia Hong Kong

Worldwide First Wikimania in 2005 Wikimania 2007 in Taipei

Held in CUHK last year, the first global conference for Chinese Wikimedians around the globe. (Own Work)

Chinese Wikimedia Conference 2006

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Usage of Wikipedia

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Reference Research Extensive reading Entertainment & Infotainment Writing & Translating Exercise Community & Socializing

Gollum Browser

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A browser designed for Wikipedia By Harald Hanek Originally for kids reading the site Hide the tools for editing &

administration Might be good for presentation Link: http://gollum.easycp.de/en/

Normal View

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With Golllum Browser

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Compare with counterparts

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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

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

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Wikimedia Timeline

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Jan-2001Jun-2003

Mar-2000

Wikimedia Projects

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Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations.

Wiktionary

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Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials

Wikibooks

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Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.

Wikiquote

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Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.

Wikisource

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Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than 1,000,000 files.

Wikimedia Commons

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Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life.

Wikispecies

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News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries

Wikinews

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Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been officially decided on its structure

Wikiversity

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Meta-WikiWikimedia Incubator

Administrative Wikis

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Coordination between different Wikimedia projects

Meta-Wiki

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Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects.

Wikimedia Incubator

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Wikimedia Foundation

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Not Wikipedia Foundation

The Resolution of it affects everyone You cannot actually change anything in

Wikipedia... Because of the rules set up by the

Foundation La présidente: Florence Nibart-Devouard

What changes that Wikimedia Brings to us??

Have a Break & Think about it……..

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MEDIAWIKI& EDUCATION IN IT

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MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies as an internal knowledge management solution, and as a content management system.

Wikipedia, 2007

MediaWiki

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Key facts

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written in the PHP can use MySQL or PostgreSQL Database Original Designed for Wikipedia Now used by

Wikimedia Projects Wikia

One of the most popular Wiki System

Key Features

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Features Example

Interlinks [[John Smith]]

Namespaces Talk:

Subpages A/B

Categories Category:

Sections ==Section==

Templates {{template}}

Media Content

Editable interface

Showing thumbnails of pictures & other media files, like Audios & Videos (Usually in Icons)

MediaWiki Gallery

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Interface of English Wikipedia

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Pay attention to the tools for Chinese Punctuations

Interface of Chinese Wikipedia

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Pay attention to tools below & Advertisements on the right hand side

Wikia Itnerface

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A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.

Wikipedia, 2007

Wiki

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Brief History

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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

Which inspired Ward Cunningham to use Wiki to name his new system, by Andrew Laing , used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

The Wiki-Wiki Shuttle bus

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Types of Wikis

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By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa)

Why wikis are so special

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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

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External Use Information sharing in Global scale like Wikimedia Documentation

Internal Use (Content management system) Team/committee planning

Developing a class outline/presentation Collaborative writing Documentation Advisory Council

John Dorner of NCSU, 2007 New Trends……

Some wikis developed their own communities-of-practice……..

A glimpse into the wiki-future in education

Partly Adapted from Student Journalists Acceptance on Collaborative Writing Wikis

W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, IRMA, 2007

Wikis in Education

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Wiki is…….

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Described as one of the most promising and rapidly emerging innovations in knowledge management (Gordon 2006).

Basically a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. (Wikipedia, 2006).

An information resource centralized online database nature and a powerful collaboration tool because of its open editing characteristics (Naish, 2006) While good e-learning is about informing, collaborating

and meeting Online, Wikis do all these things well

Wiki can….

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Help in Classroom instruction Allow both teachers & students to create

content online Help in development of cooperative

learning Help in Project Based Learning

Victoria A Davis, 2007 Westwood Schools in Camilla, GA

Advantages of Wiki in Education

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Easy & Flexible to use Web-based Simple commands

Anyone can edit Collective intelligence Build-up a culture of sharing & teamwork

Gabriela Grosseck, 2007West University of Timisoara, Romania

Running by Journalism & Communication Department, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, setup in Feb-2006

HKNews of HKSYU

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Problems of HKNews

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Shared resources are not rich enough to create value for students to help the different

writing stages in planning, generating ideas, and taking references

The contents are very similar, because students are asked to write about the weekly assembly on the site, mostly.

resistance to using wiki A really new technology for the most Complains about the strange mark-up-language Complains about the not user-friendly interface

Drawbacks of Wikis in Education

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Openness, Lack of control Vandalism & Spam Disorganized contents

Copyright & Legal issue on regarding collaborative works

Gabriela Grosseck, 2007

Similarity of the work

Considerations on introducing Wiki

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How many people… will be willing to use it? have already mastered it? have already known something about it?

Do you have... time to watch out for vandalism? enough content for development? a technician to maintain it? enough storage to run a wiki?

Considerations on introducing Wiki

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Be sure that your audience are Collaborators Synthesizers Explainers Problem Solvers

Victoria A. Davis, 2007

A wiki farm is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers.

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Wiki-farm

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Major Wikifarms

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PeanutButterWiki runs by 3 graduates of Stanford since 2005 Runs on their own software

Socialtext Perl-Based

Wetpaint Runs on their own software Since 2005, originally named Wikisphere

PTTWiki Under a Taiwanese BBS system Powered by WikkiTikkiTavi, PHP Based

Wikia

Wikia

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One of the Major wikifarms in the world For Free, support multi-Language runs on MediaWiki founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales & Angela Beesley under the name Wikicities

One of the Major wikifarms in the world

runs on MediaWiki

founded in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley under the name Wikicities

Wikia

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CONCLUSIONS

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Glossary

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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

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.

Wikia is a commercial service, with headquarters in San Mateo, California.

Examples of proper usage

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"The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate."

"The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate."

"The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new project today."

"The Wikipedia Foundation announced a new project today.“

Changes brings by Wikis

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Instant Reference VS traditional Looking up Commons Sense VS Expertise 2-Way-Learning VS Single-Way Mass collaboration VS Individual labour

Openness Peering Sharing Acting Globally (D. Tapscott 2006)

Special Thanks

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Prof. Hung FS Ms Grace Wong Mr Will WK MA Mr Shizhao Mr Encyclopedist Ms KaurJmeb Mr Jimmy Wales

Reference

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V.A. Davis, Wikis in the Classroom, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, 2007

J. Dorner, Wikis, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, 2007 G. Grosseck, A Successful Pedagogical Experiment: Using Wikis in

Academic Lectures, Bucharest, 2007 KaurJmeb, 維基百科 -- 共創的網路協作時代 , 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 Materials on Flickr.com, Wikimedia project Sites & Slideshare.net,

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THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!

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