Wikimedia, MediaWiki & Education in IT By Jérômy Y Chan

for MIT6108, CUHK

with presence of Mr LAM King Man, President, PC of Wikimedia Hong Kong

The Wordplay of the title Wikimedia is a collaboration of projects that runs by Wikimedia Foundation, ike

Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc. MediaWiki is software which Wikimedia Projects runs on, & a typical Software

that powers a wiki.

WikiMedia 101

Wikipedia 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 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)

Wikipedians’ Community Hong Kong

First gathering 18-Sept-2005 CWMC 2006 Aug-2006 Gathering & Expedition Wikimedia Hong Kong will be established in Summer 2007

Worldwide First Wikimania in 2005 Wikimania 2007 in Taipei

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

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

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

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 You cannot actually change anything in Wikipedia...

Because of the rules set up by the Foundation Chair: Florence Nibart-Devouard

Mediawiki & Education in IT 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) Key facts 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 Interlinks ([[John Smith]]) Namespaces (Talk:) Subpages (/) Categories (Category:) Sections (==Section==) Templates ({{template}}) Media Content

MediaWiki Gallery Editable interface Wiki A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. (Wikipedia, 2007) Brief History WikiWikiWeb Ward Cunningham, Its founder

, the first wiki

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

Types of Wikis As the graph on the left By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa) 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…… Wikis in Education Wiki is……. 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 HKNews of HKSYU Running by Journalism & Communication Department, Hong Kong Shue Yan

University setup in Feb-2006

Problems of HKNews Shared resources are not rich enough to create value for students to help the

different writing stages in planning, generating ideas, and taking references (W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, 2007) 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

Considerations on introducing Wiki 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?

Wiki-farms 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) Major Wikifarms

runs by 3 graduates of Stanford since 2005 PeanutButterWiki

Runs on their own software

Perl-Based Socialtext

Runs on their own software Wetpaint

Since 2005, originally named Wikisphere

Under a Taiwanese BBS system PTTWiki

Powered by WikkiTikkiTavi, PHP Based Wikia

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

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 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 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

The End 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, 2007

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