Everything you wanted to know about Wikipedia but

were too afraid to ask

Liam Wyatt, 7 June 2010

JISC/Culture24 - London

Unintentional Artichoke.

Links to: http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/menus-cookbooks

Intentional Adenauer

Some introduction...

Wiki. What?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLYWikis in Plain English

Charity

Website

Software

Chapter

• s

http://underdogpictures.com/wikidoc/site/trailer.htm Documentary trailer - “Truth in Numbers”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

- Gregg Gillis (GirlTalk) in “Good Copy, Bad Copy”

If people were passing out paints on the street for free every day, I’m sure there’d be a lot more painters.

knowledge

learning

Some Key Policies• Neutral Point of View

(NPOV)

• Verifiability (V)

• No Original Research (NOR)

• Notability (N)

• Ignore All Rules (IAR)cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pillars

Saussages, law, encyclopedias....

Recommendations:wikimedia.org.au/glam

Gnangarra - CC-by http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GLAM_friday_gnangarra_06.JPG

WP:GLAM

“Free”

• the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it • the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired

from it • the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part,

of the information or expression • the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to

distribute derivative works

http://freedomdefined.org/

http://creativecommons.org/

“Free x2”not for profit, volunteer created,

available to use, and re-use. Imagine if you never had to deal with a licensing org. again!

Gratis Libre

• Freedom of Panorama

• Cultural rights

• Donor restrictions

• Photography policy

• International copyright terms

• Terms of use

• Commercial license

• Attribution

• TPMs/DRMs

• Fair Use

• Copyright in scans

Control of Museum Art Images: The Reach and Limits of Copyright and Licensing

Melissa Brown, Kenneth Crews - Columbia Universityhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542070

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What creates copyright:

“Originality” “Sweat of the Brow”

?

The legal arguments are just that.

What about the moral argument?

If you love something, set it free.

(even if love isn’t always free)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVE_(Sculpture)

Seznam členů posádky Bounty (cz)

orLázadás a

Bountyn (hu)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nla.ms-ms5393-2-s1.jpg

TheBM&

me

Andrew Dunn - CC-by-SAhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BM

“[The British Museum is] one of the broadest-ranging cultural collectionsin the world. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is the most consultedand largest compendium of knowledge ever compiled. By harnessing theexpertise of the British Museum and the reach of Wikipedia, this projectaims to bring mutual benefit to both organisations.” - @matthewcock

Qualitative & Quantitative

Qualitative & Quantitative

“Backstage Pass”

http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backstage_Pass#Results_of_the_day

get excited and make things

We’re doing the same thing, for the same

reason, for the same people, in the same medium. Let’s do it

together.

Peace, Love & Metadataliamwyatt@gmail.com

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www.wittylama.com/blog

Presentation available via my website