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Cities and Wikiprojects: Making Your City Visible to the Free Knowledge World Cities and Wikiprojects: Making your city visible to the free knowledge world Free knowledge for the world NASA's Earth Observatory - CC BY SA 2.0 asturianu plattdüütsch english arpitan ไทย azərbaycanca hornjoserbsce ﻛوردی / gàidhlig kurdî euskara lietuvių limburgs ھَوُسَ deutsch runa simi kernewek/karnua català ქართული slovenčina occitan kapampangan alemannisch c 日本語 Македонски dansk ଓଡ଼ିଆ sámegiella basa sunda rumantsch ру́сский shqip Ilokano Български বাংলা Удмурт кыл basa jawa eesti ಕನ㒨ಡ Кырык Мары español Беларуская 吴语 Нохчийн krèyol ayisyen o’zbek ਪੰਜਾਬੀ corsu اﻟﻌرﺑﯾﺔ አማርኛ emiliàn e svenska māori brezhoneg Башҡорт fiji hindi rumagnòl ﮐوردی / soranî Олык Марий ﺷﺎه ﻣﮑﮭﯽ ﭘﻧﺟﺎﺑﯽ français lëtzebuergesch hrvatski interlingua Перем Коми 中文 Հայերեն gaeilge bikol ﺋۇﯾﻐۇر ﺗﯨﻠﻰ मराठी nnapulitano nederlands Íslenska slovenščina 贛語 ြမန်မာဘာသာ basa ugi seeltersk magyar lumbaart nordfriisk ~300नेपाल भाषा languagesമലയാളം Монгол dzhudezmo srpskohrvatski/ 粵語 frysk བོད་སྐད עברית Žemaitėška líguru italiano cрпскохрватски Тоҷикӣ Русиньскый संकृतम ् walon furlan ﮔﯾﻠﮑﯽ português Nāhuatl yorùbá Ślůnski ﻣﺻرى தமி폍 türkçe tatarça / татарча Иронау aragonés +45,000,000 articlesbasa भोजपुरी malti afrikaans Чăваш nedersaksisch اردو minangkabau banyumasan অসমীয়া cymraeg Українська galego scots Võro ිංහල chavacano de ﭘﺗو nynorsk kiswahili ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ Қазақша zamboanga ﻣَزِ روﻧﻲ esperanto norsk (bokmål) Кыргызча west-vlams 3,000,000,000हꅍदी bân-lâm-gú edits avañe’ẽ Туркмен / ﺗرﻛﻣن tagalog suomi Eλληνικά नेपाली 古文 / 文言文 picard cymraeg bahasa indonesia piemontèis ido pangasinan aymar पाऴ cрпски/srpski latina zazaki తెలుగు ગુજરાતી sardu gagauz latviešu čeština მარგალური winaray ইমার ঠার ripoarisch bosanski 한국어 sinugboanong িবষ্ণুিপ্রিয়া মিণপুরী 徶羶ខ䮘ែរ gaelg Kaszëbsczi englisc Беларуская bahasa melayu binisaya sicilianu Коми interlingue ייִדיש (тарашкевіца) română tiếng việt Hak-kâ-fa / 客家話 zeêuws Føroyskt bahsa acèh malagasy nouormand/norm polski Vèneto qırımtatarca cаха тыла estremeñu diné bizaad aund soomaali tarandíne vepsän boarisch dolnoserbski More than a billion unique devices every month. Public Domain All free & open Laraquelx - CC BY SA 4.0 open Alexrk2 / CC BY 3.0 We believe this makes the world better NASA's Earth Observatory - CC BY SA 2.0 More educated BigBrotherMouse - CC BY SA 4.0 More informed Yukiko Matsuoka - CC BY SA 2.0 More sustainable Mat McDermott- CC by SA 2.0 More democratic 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 Wikipedia 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 WIKIQUOTE WIKIDATA WIKIVERSITY WIKISOURCE WIKTIONARY COMMONS WIKIVOYAGE WIKIMEDIA WIKINEWS WIKIBOOKS 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 Wiki 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... Photo by Diliff, CC BY SA 4.0 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 Rama - CC BY SA 3.0 Photo by Murdockcrc, CC BY SA 3.0 Vienna 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. Wikimedia Foundation THANK YOU! Jorge Vargas [email protected] @jorgeavargas CC by SA 3.0, Halfblue APPENDIX ProtoplasmaKid - CC BY SA 4.0 Chris73 - CC BY SA 3.0 A golden frog 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 France Iraq USA 84% 19% Japan 87% 64% 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 Wikipedias 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.
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