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This is a summary of the slides to be used at the BBC talk.  Several of them are from my talk and Erik's talk in Berlin. See also [[User:Jimbo Wales/BBC talk]]

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*Title slide -- "Speakers today" -- who are we?
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*What's a wiki?  "ATTENTION WIKIPEDIA!" quote
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*What's a wiki?  bullet points with explanation
*How many wikis? bullet points with explanation
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*What's Wikipedia?
**Wiki-based encyclopedia, 50+ languages
**750,000 articles total
***275,000 English
***100,000 German
***150,000 images
***Open content (FDL)   
***Founded January 2001
**Organized in Wikimedia Foundation
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Some problem areas

        Accuracy
        Wikiquette
        Neutrality
        Trolling
        Edit wars
        Organization
        Performance
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Why do we need an open encyclopedia?
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Why do we need an open encyclopedia?

    "Perpetuation of ignorance 
     is the beginning of slavery"
                      --Eben Moglen

Initial goals of encyclopedists

        Collect "sum of all human knowledge"
        Only now do we have the tools to do that
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(the following slides are from my talk, the ones above are from Erik's talk)
Free Knowledge: The Practical Revolution

How Wikimedia is changing the world
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Jimbo Wales

Founder of Wikipedia and Wikimedia
 
June 12, 2004
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Our mission

        Free knowledge for everyone on the planet
        Empowering volunteers to build the information commons
        Atmosphere of love and respect
        Objectivity, neutrality, accuracy

Our success so far

        Largest English encyclopedia
        More popular than Britannica online
                More inclusive and more balanced
        Several successful spin-offs
        First WikiReaders
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The death of a Cathedral ..

Nupedia: 1999-2001 (+)

.. and the birth of a Bazaar
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Our goals for Wikipedia

        Develop systematic peer review process
        Increase stability and performance
        By late 2004
                CD-ROM or DVD edition
        By October 2005:
                Concise desk reference
        Long term
                Get Wikipedia into developing countries
                Use donated computers, print edition
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Sister projects

        Wiktionary
                "Wikipedia is not a dictionary"
        Wikibooks
                "Wikipedia is not a place for HOW-TOs"
        Wikisource
                "Wikipedia is not a source repository"
        Wikiquote
                "Wikipedia is not a collection of quotations"
        Meta-Wiki
                "Wikipedia is not Wikimedia"
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Our goals for Wikimedia

        Build successful fundraising campaigns
        Create chapters in every nation
        Get involved in issues which concern us 
                ... and which we can agree on

Future projects

        Wikimedia Commons and Single Sign-On
                Pictures, sounds, videos
        Wikinews
        WikiAtlas
        Open process for proposing new projects
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Imagine a world where every single person is given free access to the
sum of human knowledge. 

We don't have to imagine it.

We're doing it.