User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/ZBW 2013/Wikimedia projects

Abstract

Start

Q & A

Why

Wikimedia

Open X

Research cycle

Reuse

Collaboration

WM & Research

GLAM

WM & WGL

WM & ZBW

Summary

Workshop

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Wikimedia projects The family of Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Foundation's mission: "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally" A whole set of collaborative platforms that channel and structure information in different ways. Wikipedia: encyclopedia Wiktionary: dictionary Wikiquote: quotes Wikisource: sources Wikibooks: books Wikimedia Commons Wikispecies: species Wikinews: news Wikiversity: university coursework Wikidata: data Wikivoyage: travel Most of them are multilingual. All have their own communities. Lots of interaction between them. Wikimedia CH Wikimedia Deutschland Wikimedia UK Wikimedia India