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YukikoAtlantic Matsuoka Council - - CC CC BY by SA 4.02.0 Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Public domain, NASA “The problem with is that it only works in practice.

In theory, it's a total disaster.” Wikipedia

● Started in 2001 ● Written by volunteers ● 45 million+ articles ● 200,000+ monthly editors ● ~300 language versions 5 pillars Today, Wikipedia is much more than a website

Credit: NASA *Give or take. When school is in session. Public domain *Give or take. When school is in session. Public domain *Give or take. When school is in session. Public domain What is Wikimedia? Not just Wikipedia

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

WIKIVOYAGE WIKIMEDIA WIKISPECIES WIKIMEDIA LABS INCUBATOR Made possible by people

Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - CC BY SA 4.0 We are a movement

Jason Krüger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - CC BY SA 4.0 Knowledge is constantly expanding

Public domain, NASA We're here to talk about Sharing Cities… open data… the Commons... what about Open Cities? Multiplier effect

Erik Lernestål - Public Domain Loic Tallon: "Creating Access beyond metmuseum.org: The Met Collection on Wikipedia" Institutional partners and allies

CC by SA 4.0, Marlith The world faces a big challenge: History is fragile

Олег Сыромятников - CC BY SA 3.0 If it’s not digital, it will fade away.

Public Domain CC by SA 4.0, Zachary McCune Tim Tregenza / CC BY-SA 3.0 Sharing cities openly can be challenging, but we're all here to figure this out... together.

Tim Tregenzaeffeietsanders, / CC BY-SA CC BY 3.0 SA 2.0 Some great examples... CC by SA 4.0, Motiur Rahman Oni Rod Waddington / CC BY-SA 2.0

Wiki Loves Monuments Loves Earth Wiki Loves Africa PKharote CC BY-SA 4.0 Newton2 CC BY 2.5 Yann Macherez CC-BY-SA 4.0 Weaving all the media available...

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It’s linked Open Data, but practical, approachable, and impactful. This position us to fill gaps in representation of Knowledge… in every city in the world! Vienna

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Rama - CC BY SA 3.0 Photo by Murdockcrc, CC BY SA 3.0 Let us share your story.

Rama - CC BY SA 3.0 Austin Neill - Public Domain Connecting our past, present, and future

dbasulto - CC BY SA 2.0 The smart thing. The enduring thing. The right thing. CC BY-SA 4.0. THANK YOU!

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Public domain Public domain Sometimes, we humans can make it even harder... CC BY SA 2.0, Tim Evanson RodTim Waddington Tregenza / CC BY-SA 2.03.0 Wikipedia awareness among internet users

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India Brazil Nigeria 33% 39% 27%

Sources: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/Brand_awar eness,_attitudes,_and_usage_-_Executive_Summary

CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Foundation BFlores (WMF) CC0 Some great examples... Sharing UNESCO Open Access Content on Wikipedia

UNESCO Science report

● 28 new articles created ● 26 existing articles improved ● 2.1 million views per month UNESCO images on Wikipedia

● Shared around 3000 images on Wikipedia ● Appear on articles that have received 54.9 million views ● Appear on 50 different language Competitions on Wikipedia

● 1000 World Heritage Wikipedia articles created and improved across 15 languages. ● 100s of UNESCO images were added to Wikipedia articles ● Image views increased from 1 million to 10 million per month Over 10,000 facts from UNESCO programmes are now on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia articles on World Heritage sites (that use UNESCO data) receive 7.3 million page views per month Museum of Veterinary Anatomy, Universidade de São Paulo

Minihorse foal. Equus ferus caballus Technique of dehydration - piece showing the syntopy of organs on display at the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy in the Universidade de São Paulo CC BY-SA 4.0 255 pages, on 34 Wikipedias, with more than 6M views… In 1 month.

Kolitha de Silva CC BY 2.0 on Flickr Underlying lithograph by W. Crane, public domain/CC0. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/05/w https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/26/ ikidata-visiting-scholar-art-dataset/ national-wikimedian-jason-evans/ Locations depicted in Welsh Landscape Collection at National Library of Wales, on map http://tinyurl.com/y8ybqku7 National Library of Wales used Wikidata to create visualizations... and to translate descriptions of rare print collections from English to Welsh. ...and why stop there? Владимир Нимчевић CC BY-SA 4.0 Giselle Bordoy (WMAR) CC-BY-SA 4.0