50 Shades of Wiki: New tools to share, remix and reuse
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50 Shades of Wiki:New tools to share, remix and reuse
Moiz Syed • Dario TaraborelliWikimania 2015, Mexico City
Outline
1. The case for remix, reuse and sharing
2. Applications
3. Expected impact
4. How you can help
Sharing
Wikipedia currently gets 2% of its traffic from social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Sharing
BuzzFeed’s social traffic is 5X its search traffic.
Wikipedia social traffic is approximately 0.06X its search traffic
Editing vs remixing
“Content consumers may suck at producing content, but give them the right tools and they’ll make amazing content curators”
– made-up quote from somebody at Flickr, on the launch of Galleries
Editing vs remixing
How do we get value from half a billion readers?
Wikipedia builds on the idea of free licenses to support reuse and remix, but we don’t actively encourage this behavior.
Women in Science
Wikipedia needs your help
The English Wikipedia article Women in Science needs contributors from a more global perspective. Help expand it!
Increasing reach via sharing & remixing
Expand Wikimedia beyond encyclopedic, NPOV content
New entry point to discover Wikimedia contents