__Mirror mirror on the wall, what's the most important open source project of them all?__ -- - Are you asking about economic impact? Then it's probably Linux, or maybe the Apache Web server. -- - Are you asking about user base? In that case I'm thinking Google's Android, or Mozilla. -- - But if you're talking about active participation, getting people's hands on the guts of the thing, having them donate that back to the commons, and fulfilling the idea behind open source, there can be only one answer. __Wikipedia.__ -- .footnote[ [The importance of Wikipedia](https://opensource.com/business/11/11/importance-wikipedia), 30 Nov 2011, Dana Blankenhorn ] --- class: center, middle # CSCI-UA 480.10: OSSD
## Open Encyclopedia .author[ Instructor: Joanna Klukowska
] .license[ Unless noted otherwise all content is released under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ] --- # Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/ - "__is a free online encyclopedia with the mission of allowing anyone to create or edit articles.__ Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, and is ranked the fifth-most popular website. Wikipedia is a project owned by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia , retrieved Jan. 28) - [_The Birth of Wikipedia_](https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia) - TED talk by Jimmy Wales - [_The importance of Wikipedia_](https://opensource.com/business/11/11/importance-wikipedia), Dana Blankenhorn, Nov. 30, 2011, Opensource.com --- # Wikipedia among the top of "The top 500 sites on the web)
(source: https://www.alexa.com/topsites, retrieved Jan. 28, 2018) --- # Wikimedia Foundation and their projects Wikipedia is not the only project run by the Wikimedia Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Projects_and_initiatives Can you name a few? -- There are over ... edits to the Wikimedia projects so far (pick the closest answer). - 1,000,000 - 10,000,000 - 100,000,000 - 1,000,000,000 -- over 3,700,000,000 and going up fast, see https://tools.wmflabs.org/wmcounter/ --- # Wikipedia download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download --- # Contributing to Wikipedia - how can we figure out how to cotribute to a project like Wikipedia? --- # Additional Readings [Contributing to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia) [Wikipedia:Cleanup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup) - minor issues that can be fixed without deeper knowledge on the subject, like broken links, incorrect formatting, etc. [Elsavier guide to contributing](http://www.elsevier.com/authors-update/home/featured-article/irked-by-wikipedia-errors-heres-how-to-fix-them) BBC article [Wikipedia blocks hundreds of 'scam' sock puppet accounts](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34127466) from 2015 [4 tips for creating a Wikipedia article](https://opensource.com/article/16/11/4-tips-creating-wikipedia-article) [How WikiFundi is helping people in Africa contribute to Wikipedia](https://opensource.com/article/17/9/wikifundi-leader-florence-devouard) [How I accidentally wrote a Wikipedia page on a layover in Dublin](https://opensource.com/article/18/4/how-i-accidentally-wrote-wikipedia-page), 21 Apr 2018, Justin W. Flory ---