Wikipedia:Presenting Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation

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Presentations about Wikipedia
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Overview
Understanding Wikipedia
Building an Audience
Creating Slides
Do's and Don'ts
Handling Questions
Transcripts & Feedback
Upcoming presentations
Archived presentations

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Wikipedia Help
Presenting the Wikimedia Foundation
Meta Project Coordination
Presentations on Meta

This is a new project page to provide recommendations to individuals giving Wikipedia--based presentations to a live audience. The purpose is to make each presentation as accurate, convenient to assemble, and as high--impact as possible. As a secondary purpose, this project page will coordinate efforts to upload transcripts, audio, and/or video of useful presentations. A Wikimania 2006 workshop is in the works.


Wikipedia article: Wikimedia Foundation Corporate Website: [1]

Contents

[edit] Understanding the Foundation

There is a lot of behind--the--scenes activity to keep Wikipedia up and running. The Wikimedia Foundation is a non--profit organization that runs Wikipedias in dozens of languages in addition to managing major sister projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is fueling a revolution of freely--available and comprehensive educational information.

[edit] Basic Structure

  • Corporate Flowchart
  • Committee Structure & Transparency
  • Role of Jimmy Wales, Brad Patrick
  • Importance of Community


[edit] Philosophy & Activism

  • Build by volunteers, handful of paid employees
  • Welcoming of newcomers
  • Educated world citizenry
  • Radical Openness
  • Importance of logic, anti--credentialism, constructive criticism

[edit] Foundation Events

  • Wikimania
  • Local Meetups
  • Official Foundation Chapters

[edit] Sister Projects to Wikipedia

  • Wikinews, Wikisource, etc...

[edit] Future Projects

  • Purpose of Meta, Mailing Lists, IRC
  • Explanation of Principles