User:Mozzy66/Birdwood 2012

What is it?

Wikipedia

• Do you use Wikipedia at home?
• Do your parents use it?
• Who thinks it is pretty good/bad?

How old is it?

How old are you?

How big is it?

International!

• Roman_portraiture

How good is it?

• references
  • books are good! And articles, etc.
• vandalism
  • my watchlist
• rules
  • Wikipedia:Five_pillars
• Museums are helping too..
  • Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ
  • Wikipedia:GLAM/SI

People use it (everybody) in everyday work:

• Journalists
• Doctors
• Programmers

Knowing how to use W well, is a good guide to knowing how to use other online resource. E.g. Stack Overflow.

Why do people help with to it?

• Fun
• Frustration at gaps
• A worthwhile volunteer activity
• Keep the mind sharp
• work with other people with similar interests and passions
• Spanish art - before I helped, t looked like this: [1]
• organisation: Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice_board

Pages to look at:

• Antarctica - through to Mawson aust. Bio external link
• 2012 Summer Olympics
• Commodore
• Mary Donaldson
• Fantastic Mr Fox
• Starcraft
• Hannah Montana copyright of images issue
• Adelaide very minor artcles
• Birdwood
  • let us improve it!
  • Link to G F Angas. George Fife Angas
  • Better range of photos

Wikipedia

Things Wikipedia is not the best at

• personal info
• very local data
• howto instruction
• medical
• latest news (good for background)
• timetables, weather, inflation/unemployment rates
• going really deep into a subject
• unencyclopedic topics

Wikipedia is the most reliable, general first port of call, for if you want to find information on the Internet.

Wikipedia is your friend