Reusing Contents On Wikimedia: Notes

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Reusing Contents on Wikimedia

By Jeromy-Yu Chan, ARAD

President, Wikimedia Hong Kong

Communications Committee, Wikimedia Foundation

Where to find stuffs can use? Wikipedia

Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages Wikimedia Commons

Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than 1,000,000 files.

Wikiquote Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways.

Wikisource Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts.

Wikimedia Hong Kong A Local chapter of Wikimedia in the town, where you can find us.

What you are going to reuse? Texts? Other Media Reusing the Texts All texts in Wikimedia Projects released in a dual-license environment, that

means re-users can choose either Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License or GNU Free Documentation License.



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Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is

freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website

c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikimedia community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work, which we will strive to indicate clearly to you. For example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.

Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use, you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 or later.

Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.

Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-SA and either a) a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a suitable URL is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC-BY-SA License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode

If you choose GFDL, you may have to print out the whole license once when use as a printed out version.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/�

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode�



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Reusing the other media non-text media files are available under various free culture licenses, consistent with the

Wikimedia Foundation Licensing Policy. Please view the media description page for details about the license of any specific media file. For example Creative Commons GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) GNU General Public License (GPL) / GNU Lesser General Public License

(LGPL) Free Art License

Creative Commons, GFDL,GPL and LGPL licenses, please refer the parts above To benefit from the Free Art License, you only need to mention the following elements

on your work: [Name of the author, title, date of the work. When applicable, names of authors of the common work and, if possible, where to find the originals].

All these Licenses need attributions Creative Commons GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) GNU General Public License (GPL) / GNU Lesser General Public License

(LGPL) Free Art License For text contents, look for Cite this page on the sidebar of Wikimedia pages

Appendix: WikiMedia & Wiki 101

Wikipedia is Wiki+encyclopedia The so-called “Free” Encyclopedia Encyclopedia containing more than 7 million articles in 250 languages English edition launched 5-Jan-2001 as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct

encyclopedia Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales was one of the founders of Wikipedia



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Chinese Wikipedia(維基百科)… Established along with 12 other Wikipedias in May 2001 24-Oct-2002 User:Mountain created the first page, Main Page 27-Oct-2002 A software update for Chinese input & domain zh.wikipedia.org 17-Nov-2002 First real article: Computer science (計算機科學) Current Usage of Wikipedia Reference Research Extensive reading Entertainment & Infotainment Writing & Translating Exercise Community & Socializing Compare with counterparts Britannica online MSN Encarta

Have to pay for premium Citizendium

opened in Mar-2007 by Larry Sanger Article will be reviewed by experts

Baidu Baike (百度百科) hosted by search engine Baidu Pro-CCP point of view Plagiarism of content on Chinese Wikipedia



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Wikimedia The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is 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.

From Article II of Bylaws of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Wikimedia Timeline Nupedia Wikipedia Wikimedia Mar-2000 Jan-2001 Jun-2003 Wikimedia Projects Wiktionary

Dictionary cataloging meanings, synonyms, etymologies and translations. Wikibooks

Collection of free educational textbooks and learning materials Wikiquote

Collection of quotations structured in numerous ways. Wikisource

Project to provide and translate free source documents, such as public domain texts. Wikimedia Commons

Repository of images, sounds, videos and general media, containing more than 1,000,000 files.

Wikispecies Directory of species data on animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and

all other forms of life. Wikinews

News source containing original reporting by citizen journalists from many countries



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Wikiversity Courses, course materials, tests. Announced to go into beta testing, little has been

officially decided on its structure Administrative Wikis Meta-Wiki

Coordination between different Wikimedia projects Wikimedia Incubator

Used to test possible new Wikimedia projects and new languages for existing projects.

Wikimedia Foundation Not Wikipedia Foundation The Resolution of it affects everyone Headquarters in San Francisco Chair: Michael Snow Wiki A wiki is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content. (Wikipedia, 2007) Brief History WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki Ward Cunningham, Its founder Started development in 1994 installed it online 25-Mar-1995 "wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "quick" Cunningham name the system after a shuttle bus line that runs between the

terminals in Honolulu International Airport



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Types of Wikis As the graph on the left By KaurJmeb, used under CC 2.0 (by-sa) MediaWiki is the program behind the Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Projects Why wikis are so special Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006)

Openness Peering Sharing Acting Globally

Logs Revision History Recent Changes

Full of Interlinks New Style of Mark-up language

Current Usage Information sharing in Global scale like Wikimedia As Content management system in some institutions & communities-of-practice

Some wikis developed their own communities-of-practice…….. New Trends……

Conclusions Glossary Wikipedia (and not The Wikipedia) is the encyclopedia project by Wikimedia. The Wikimedia Foundation, based in the United States, is the nonprofit

corporation that maintains the project



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Wikimedia is collective noun refer to all projects run by Wikimedia Foundation, that means all Wikipedia’s sister projects and herself

A wiki is the generic term for web site that anyone can edit, which may run MediaWiki or any of many dozens of other wiki software packages.

MediaWiki is the name of the software that runs Wikipedia, and many other independent sites.

Examples of proper usage RIGHT: "The university started a wiki for its students to collaborate." WRONG: "The university started a Wikipedia for its students to collaborate." RIGHT: "The Wikimedia Foundation announced a new project today." WRONG: "The Wikipedia Foundation announced a new project today.“ Changes brings by Wikis Instant Reference VS traditional Looking up Commons Sense VS Expertise 2-Way-Learning VS Single-Way Mass collaboration (D. Tapscott 2006) VS Individual labour

Openness Peering Sharing Acting Globally

Reference KaurJmeb, Presentation materials for National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, 2006

KaurJmeb, 維基百科攻略: 分享知識最前線, Pcuser, 2006

W.K. Ma & J. Y. Chan, Student Journalists Acceptance on Collaborative Writing Wikis, IRMA, 2007

D. Tapscott & A. D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , Portfolio, 2006

Wikimedia Foundation, Materials on its Projects, 2009

Note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License (3.0, by-nc-nd).

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