everything you wanted to know about wikipedia but were too afraid to ask
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Presentation given for JISC/Culture 24 event on Monday 7 June, London. Two presentation sessions on the same day.TRANSCRIPT
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/
“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 & [email protected]
[[user:witty lama]]@wittylama
www.wittylama.com/blog
Presentation available via my website