Wikipedia. How it works and why it works презентация

History

Background
III century BC - library of Alexandria.
II century BC - library in Pergamum.
77 BC – "Natural history" of Pliny the Elder.
1407 The Yongle Encyclopedia.
1751-80 - "encyclopedia, or Explanatory dictionary of Sciences, arts and crafts" (D. Diderot and J. L. D'alembert).
1930-40-s – idea electronic encyclopedia (the Departure Floor, G. wells, V. Bush).
1979 – the idea of the Handbook that anyone can write (Douglas Adams, "the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy")
1993 – first electronic encyclopedia (MS Encarta).
1999 – the idea of a free universal encyclopedia (Richard Stallman).

Nupedia
In 2000 was opened the free encyclopedia "Nupedia".
The texts for the encyclopedia are written by experts and carefully checked by editors.

Technology wiki
In the late 1980-ies started to develop the concept of the wiki.
In 1995 he opened the first website in the world working on this technology "the Portland store samples" of code.

January 15 2001 was opened on Wikipedia
By the end of 2001 Wikipedia was already in 18 languages and contained more than 20,000 articles.

Languages
Today Wikipedia is created in 284 languages
Total articles: 21 100 000
Number of articles:
English - 3 860 000
German – 1 360 000
French - 1 210 000
Dutch – 1 020 000
Italian – 890 000
Polish – 880 000
Spanish – 860 000
Russian – 820 000

The Rules Of Wikipedia
The basic rule of Wikipedia says...
Ignore all rules that prevent you from improving Wikipedia, or to support its operation.

5 pillars
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia adheres to a neutral point of view.
Wikipedia content is free to use.
Wikipedia has a set of rules of conduct.
Wikipedia has strict rules.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
It is not Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is not the place to advertise.
Wikipedia is not a tribune.
Wikipedia is not a social experiment.
Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate dump of information.
Wikipedia is not a links directory.
Wikipedia is not a collection of documents.
Wikipedia is not a newspaper.

Проверяемость
Все факты в статье должны подкрепляться ссылками на авторитетные источники.
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The Wikipedia editing community
Registered: > 33 million people.
Active participants: ~ 300 thousand people.

Established in September 2004.
Contains over 12 million media files.
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