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Other tools

Twitter visualization of conversations on breast cancer

Art projects[edit]

There are some situations when one needs to show a Wikimedia project to an audience for the purpose of generating awe and wonder. Many times, the presenter needs to make the audience very happy very quickly by showing them something amazing. This page includes best practices for presenting Wikipedia during an exhibition which all kinds of people will attend and during which the viewers may want instant and fun understanding of Wikipedia.

Collections in Wikipedia[edit]

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year, the photos voted as Wikimedia Common's best of each year
Wikimedia Commons Open Access File of the Day, a collection of science-related files

Art projects outside Wikipedia[edit]

Wikistream, the live feed of Wikipedia contributions
Wikipedia Recent Changes Map
WikiMindMap, a project to show links between articles. This link is to an example for health articles
map of geotagged articles
Edit-history.com, a demonstration of how Wikipedia articles change over time
Readability of Wikipedia
The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs, a set of books showing Wikipedia edits to the article Iraq War
Internet-map, a project showing the world's most popular websites as planets in a galaxy
Professor Wikipedia, a 2-minute comedy sketch showing Wikipedia personified as a university professor
Passing on, a project to connect Gender in New York Times Editorial Obituaries 1987 - 2007 to Wikipedia
firstdraftsofhistory.tumblr.com, a tumblr of the first drafts of Wikipedia articles
Wikigalaxy, an article visualization tool

Talks for people without computers[edit]

Tour of Wikipedia website[edit]

Dispute resolution on Wikipedia[edit]

Evaluating the quality of sources[edit]

Evaluating the quality of articles[edit]

Internal advertising on Wikipedia[edit]

Template:Wikipedia ads
WP:GEONOTICE
Wikipedia:WikiProject and WikiProject banners
Wikipedia:Did you know
Template:Primary sources and other problem templates
User:RFC bot

User reputation hierarchies[edit]

Major Wikipedia outreach projects[edit]

Wikipedia Loves Monuments
Wiki Loves Libraries
Wikipedia Education Program

Wikipedia internationally[edit]

mw:Wikipedia Zero
Global south
meta:Gender gap

Funding of Wikipedia[edit]

annual report
strategic plan
Wikipedian in Residence
Wikipedia education program (universities)
Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Past
Case Studies book

Controversial incidents[edit]

Wikipedia controversies
issue	explanation	notes
Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg	simple vandalism; someone added "Wilhelm" to his name then international newspapers reported the vandalized name	a typical but not serious problem
Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia	the most common problem; a company tries to use Wikipedia for self-promotion
Censorship of Wikipedia	a government censors Wikipedia
Enciclopedia Libre	this fork of Wikipedia brought instant confirmation that Wikipedia would also be free (gratis and libre)
Seigenthaler incident	Wikipedia editor outlandishly insults journalist; he publicly complains	major Wikipedia reform follows; everyone pleased with outcome
US Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia	in 2006 election many politicians independently try to use Wikipedia to promote themselves
Essjay controversy	Wikipedia editor claims expertise; total phony; Wikipedia community thoroughly discounts expertise hereafter	Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-03-05/Essjay
National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute	photographs centuries old paintings claimed as copyrighted	museum does not want to go to court over Wikipedia hosting them; many people say that museum would lose case
Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber	In Germany, prisoners who serve sentence free from perpetual media coverage. Conflict between German and US law.
Texas Instruments signing key controversy	legality of publishing computer keys uncertain
Campaign for "santorum" neologism	a leading candidate for the US presidency severely disrupted because of information campaign	NPR
Sanger and the 2010 FBI complaint	early Wikipedia employee accuses Wikipedia of distributing pornography of, to, for, and with children	The Signpost Fox News The Register
reviews of The Human Stain	a prominent author wants Wikipedia updated with an unpublished minority viewpoint; published complaint when it is not	The New Yorker
history of Haymarket affair	a prominent historian wants Wikipedia updated with an unpublished minority viewpoint; published complaint when it is not	The Chronicle

WikiProject organization[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject
adding content, like Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
sorting content, like Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors

Copyright[edit]

reuse of Wikipedia content
Choose a Creative Commons license
Defining Noncommercial a Creative Commons study published in 2009
Gratis versus libre
Open Access
Creative Commons
GNU Free Documentation License
Public domain
Commons:Hirtle chart

Product branding in Internet culture[edit]

trademark versus brand
broadcast media versus social media versus search media

What Wikipedia does poorly[edit]

undeveloped interface
non-search, non-browsing media
identify subtle vandalism
train newcomers

comparison with other sites
1. Tumblr
2. Twitter
  1. Bora of Scientific American tweets incessantly
  2. Neil DeGrasse Tyson American Museum of Natural History Curator
3. 4chan - File:4chan_front_page_2010.png
4. Craigslist [1]
5. Reddit
  1. Obama AMA
  2. Pyongyang
6. original Cheezburger cat
7. Instagram, launched October 2012, sold April 2012, 1 billion, 13 employees
8. Facebook - founded 2004, most popular social media site in 2009
9. MySpace - founded 2003, NewCorp in 2005 for 580 million, world's most popular website in 2006, sold in 2011 for 35 million
10. Revenue - Canada GDP 1400, ExxonMobil 486, Wal-Mart 447, Greece GDP 280, Apple 109, Microsoft 73, Boeing 69, Coca Cola 47, Disney 41, Google 38, TimeWarner 29, Facebook 3.7, New York Times Company 2, Consumer Reports 0.2, Twitter 0.1, Wikipedia 0.01

Scholarly research of Wikipedia[edit]

Wikipedia partnerships[edit]

Wikipedian in Residence

Conflict of interest / paid editing[edit]

Gibraltar case

Blue, Violet (18 September 2012). "Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia". CNET News. San Francisco: CBS. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
Williams, Christopher (2 October 2012). "Wikipedia charity faces investigation over trustee 'conflict of interest'". The Daily Telegraph. London: TMG. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
"Deux membres de Wikipédia accusés de conflit d'intérêts". Le Monde. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
Gross, Grant (19 September 2012). "Wikipedia contributors debate whether it's okay to pay for posts | PCWorld". PCWorld. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
"It is not ok with me that anyone ever set up a service selling their services as a Wikipedia editor, administrator, bureaucrat, etc. I will personally block any cases that I am shown." - 2009 Jumbo Wales
"If what you say is accurate, then of course I'm extremely unhappy about it. It's disgusting.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 00:54, 17 September 2012" about Bamkin

Other proposals[edit]

Here are some possible presentation prompts or titles. Each of these is a 1-hour presentation, and the format is always 15-20 minutes of lecture followed by audience questions and live demonstrations. All of these are suitable for people at any level of online media comfort and anyone can join any of them without joining any of the others. Other lectures in response to specific questions can be arranged with advance notice.

Wikipedia talks[edit]

Wikipedia: The Philosophy of the Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit
Dispute Resolution on Wikipedia
Writers, Researchers, Fact-Checkers, Editors, Moderators, and Mediators: User roles on Wikipedia
Tour of the Wikipedia Web Site
The Life of a Wikipedia Article from Creation to its Fate
User reputation hierarchies on Wikipedia: what causes a Wikipedian to have credibility, and be held in esteem by their colleagues?
Wikipedia's public controversies - when the outside world has had conflict with Wikipedia
Wikipedia's internal social network - how do people use Wikipedia to meet like-minded others
The difference between free speech and free kittens - Licensing and copyright on Wikipedia
Faults of Wikipedia - What Wikipedia does poorly; a comparison of information platforms
The Wikipedia community's outreach to the public: what Wikipedia does to support people outside the website
How to teach someone else to begin editing Wikipedia, even if you do not know how to do it yourself
10 ways to ask a question about editing Wikipedia
Characteristics of high-quality Wikipedia articles
Conflict of Interest editing and Wikipedia's attacks on advertisers
Articles for Deletion: The criteria for Inclusion in and Exclusion from Wikipedia
Wiki Gnomes - the people who do odd, low-profile tasks which make everything else work
"Experts are scum" - How Wikipedia operates without central leadership or respect for rank
Wikipedia's place in the larger Open Movement
Tour of Wikimedia projects which complement Wikipedia

New Media presentations[edit]

The Open Movement
Committing to a platform - Calculating your investment and potential return with the major social media platforms
Tour 10 social media websites in 10 Minutes. Warning! Mention of Facebook and Twitter prohibited.
Calling all mid-career professionals! Be an Internet expert in a year in just an hour a week
Get in and get out! Models for a one-day online social media campaign.
Be savvy without doing homework - Speedy reviews of books and papers related to the Open Movement
How copyright law became a popular coffeehouse discussion topic
A Survey of Google's products
Attitudes on online privacy among people who feel the need to be secure
Before and Beyond the World Wide Web - a review of the Internet's protocols
Who are Facebook's users? Hint - they do not know they use Facebook, and this talk is about surveillance
Who's who in Defining the Internet - a consumer perspective
Let's talk Internet money! Spending 17 Billion Dollars each, in 2014 the US Military and Facebook purchased 10 nuclear submarines and a chat app. Who bought which and why?
Crazy future Internet predictions by seemingly smart people
Get some kid to do it - The success of youth online

Tutorials for people at computers[edit]

Wikitext markup
Setting up a watchlist
Your profile page
Meeting other users
Uploading media
Attracting attention to your work
Conflict of interest
Tracking metrics
Connecting with the community
Example workflows