wikia and wikipedia by angela beesley

Wiki communities

Angela Beesley Starling

NSW KM Forum

Sydney 2009

Not just an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is a huge global community

Wikimedia Conference 2007, Taipei.

Only a tiny percentage will participate

Wikipedia has

•¼ billion readers every month

•Thousands of regular editors

The 1% rule

Why do we want more editors?

“article quality is indeed correlated with both number of edits and

number of distinct editors.”

HP Labs 2007

Learning wiki syntax is a barrier to participation

Make it as easy as you possibly can

answers.wikia.com

answers.wikia.com

Transparency increases trust

Dispute resolution

Encourage new members

Trust the community Make it easy to start participating Define a shared goal

example...

Best practices

Imagine a world in which every

person can freely share

in the sum of all knowledge.

Wikipedia’s Vision

With the exception of copyrighted images, logos, and screenshots, this presentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

• Golden Wiki Award image created by Hill and available under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gfdl.html http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldenwiki.png

• Wikimania 2007, Taipei photo by Alex S.H. Lin and available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania07finalgrouppic.jpg

• The Wikipedia logo was created by Nohat. It is copyrighted and a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation.

• Wikia logo designed by Mike Bohrer, © Wikia, Inc. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia:Logo

• The Star Wars Wiki logo was designed by Tracy Duncan and is released under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Wiki.png

• “Wikipedia”, “The Wikimedia Foundation” and the Wikipedia logo are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation.

• “Wikia” is a service mark of Wikia, Inc. • Screenshots of wiki content include text which is licensed under the GNU Free

Documentation License.• HP Labs quotation - Dennis M. Wilkinson and Bernardo A. Huberman, Assessing the

Value of Cooperation in Wikipedia. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/wikipedia/index.html

• Disclaimers: The logos used here may be copyrighted and/or trademarked to their respective owners. Their use here does not imply endorsement. Wikia, Inc. and The Wikimedia Foundation are separate organisations and mention of them here does not imply any relationship between them.

Contact me: angela@wikia.com