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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
Wikipedians in front of You
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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
Let’s start the talk…….30-May-2007
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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
Wikipedians, Wikipedia & Wikimedia30-May-2007
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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.
Wikipedia, 2007
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
Give me a few more minutes please……
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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,
2007
THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!
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