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There are some situations when one needs to show a Wikimedia project to an audience for the purpose of generating awe and wonder. Many times, the presenter needs to make the audience very happy very quickly by showing them something amazing. This page includes best practices for presenting Wikipedia during an exhibition which all kinds of people will attend and during which the viewers may want instant and fun understanding of Wikipedia.

Collections in Wikipedia

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Art projects outside Wikipedia

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Talks for people without computers

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Life of a Wikipedia article

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  1. Creation
    1. Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
    2. Wikipedia:Starting an article
    3. Wikipedia:Article wizard
    4. Special:NewPagesFeed
    5. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
  2. Sorting
    1. Wikipedia:WikiProject
    2. Wikipedia:Categorization
    3. Special:RecentChanges
    4. Wikipedia:Template messages
  3. Development
    1. anyone casually adds content
    2. Wikipedia:Did you know
    3. Grading scheme
    4. populating the talk page
  4. Interaction with other articles
    1. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
    2. Wikipedia:Merging
    3. Wikipedia:Content forking
    4. Wikipedia:Navigation templates
  5. Controversy
    1. Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
    2. Wikipedia:Protection policy
    3. Wikipedia:Requests for comment
    4. Wikipedia:Dispute resolution
    5. Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
  6. Peer review
    1. Wikipedia:Good articles
    2. Wikimedia Commons
    3. metrics, such as Wikipedia:Vital articles
    4. Help:Interlanguage links
  7. Perfection?
    1. Portal:Current events
    2. Wikipedia:Featured articles
    3. Wikipedia:Translation, for example health articles
    4. Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content

Example user roles

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GalaxyZoo.org

  • Simonite, Tom (22 October 2013). "The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 23 October 2013.

Review of health content

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  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
  2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation Task Force
  3. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine), also known as WP:MEDRS - medical reliable sources
  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Wikipedia and medicine

The Wikimedia Foundation's non-Wikipedia projects

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Tour of Wikipedia website

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  1. Wikipedia:Teahouse
  2. Help:Contents
  3. Portal:Featured portals
  4. Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines

Dispute resolution on Wikipedia

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  1. Content
    1. Wikipedia:Verifiability
      1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Council
      2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange
    2. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
    3. Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
    4. Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard
    5. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard
      1. Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard
      2. Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard
    6. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard
      1. Wikipedia biography controversy
    7. Wikipedia:Non-free content review
  2. Conduct
    1. Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents
    2. Wikipedia:Sock puppetry
    3. Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
  3. Policy
    1. Wikipedia:Requests for comment
    2. Wikipedia:Village pump
    3. Foundation:Board of Trustees

Evaluating the quality of sources

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  1. Wikipedia:Verifiability
  2. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
  3. Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
  4. Wikipedia:No original research/Noticeboard
  5. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard

Evaluating the quality of articles

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  1. Wikipedia:Peer review
  2. Wikipedia:Quality#Grades
  3. Wikipedia:Good articles
  4. Wikipedia:Featured articles
  5. Wikipedia:Vital articles and user:TCO's presentation Wikipedia's poor treatment of its most important articles
  6. Assessment in WikiProject Open
  7. Assessment in WikiProject Medicine
  8. example of conflict - CR and myopia

Internal advertising on Wikipedia

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  1. Template:Wikipedia ads
  2. WP:GEONOTICE
  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject and WikiProject banners
  4. Wikipedia:Did you know
  5. Template:Primary sources and other problem templates
  6. User:RFC bot

User reputation hierarchies

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  1. Wikipedia:Edit count
  2. Wikipedia:Blocking policy
  3. Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
  4. Wikipedia:Barnstars
  5. Wikipedia:Wikilove
  6. Help:Archiving a talk page

Major Wikipedia outreach projects

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  1. Wikipedia Loves Monuments
  2. Wiki Loves Libraries
  3. Wikipedia Education Program

Wikipedia internationally

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  1. mw:Wikipedia Zero
  2. Global south
  3. meta:Gender gap

Funding of Wikipedia

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  1. annual report
  2. strategic plan
  3. Wikipedian in Residence
  4. Wikipedia education program (universities)
  5. Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Past
  6. Case Studies book

Controversial incidents

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Wikipedia controversies
issue explanation notes
Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg simple vandalism; someone added "Wilhelm" to his name then international newspapers reported the vandalized name a typical but not serious problem
Conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia the most common problem; a company tries to use Wikipedia for self-promotion
Censorship of Wikipedia a government censors Wikipedia
Enciclopedia Libre this fork of Wikipedia brought instant confirmation that Wikipedia would also be free (gratis and libre)
Seigenthaler incident Wikipedia editor outlandishly insults journalist; he publicly complains major Wikipedia reform follows; everyone pleased with outcome
US Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia in 2006 election many politicians independently try to use Wikipedia to promote themselves
Essjay controversy Wikipedia editor claims expertise; total phony; Wikipedia community thoroughly discounts expertise hereafter Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-03-05/Essjay
National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Foundation copyright dispute photographs centuries old paintings claimed as copyrighted museum does not want to go to court over Wikipedia hosting them; many people say that museum would lose case
Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber In Germany, prisoners who serve sentence free from perpetual media coverage. Conflict between German and US law.
Texas Instruments signing key controversy legality of publishing computer keys uncertain
Campaign for "santorum" neologism a leading candidate for the US presidency severely disrupted because of information campaign NPR
Sanger and the 2010 FBI complaint early Wikipedia employee accuses Wikipedia of distributing pornography of, to, for, and with children The Signpost Fox News The Register
reviews of The Human Stain a prominent author wants Wikipedia updated with an unpublished minority viewpoint; published complaint when it is not The New Yorker
history of Haymarket affair a prominent historian wants Wikipedia updated with an unpublished minority viewpoint; published complaint when it is not The Chronicle

WikiProject organization

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  1. Wikipedia:WikiProject
  2. adding content, like Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
  3. sorting content, like Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors
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  1. reuse of Wikipedia content
  2. Choose a Creative Commons license
  3. Defining Noncommercial a Creative Commons study published in 2009
  4. Gratis versus libre
  5. Open Access
  6. Creative Commons
  7. GNU Free Documentation License
  8. Public domain
  9. Commons:Hirtle chart

Product branding in Internet culture

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  1. trademark versus brand
  2. broadcast media versus social media versus search media

What Wikipedia does poorly

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  1. undeveloped interface
  2. non-search, non-browsing media
  3. identify subtle vandalism
  4. train newcomers
  1. comparison with other sites
    1. Tumblr
      1. London Bananas
      2. Is it Christmas?
      3. San Diego Zoo tumblr
      4. Wired tumblr
    2. Twitter
      1. Bora of Scientific American tweets incessantly
      2. Neil DeGrasse Tyson American Museum of Natural History Curator
    3. 4chan - File:4chan_front_page_2010.png
    4. Craigslist [1]
    5. Reddit
      1. Obama AMA
      2. Pyongyang
    6. original Cheezburger cat
    7. Instagram, launched October 2012, sold April 2012, 1 billion, 13 employees
    8. Facebook - founded 2004, most popular social media site in 2009
    9. MySpace - founded 2003, NewCorp in 2005 for 580 million, world's most popular website in 2006, sold in 2011 for 35 million
    10. Revenue - Canada GDP 1400, ExxonMobil 486, Wal-Mart 447, Greece GDP 280, Apple 109, Microsoft 73, Boeing 69, Coca Cola 47, Disney 41, Google 38, TimeWarner 29, Facebook 3.7, New York Times Company 2, Consumer Reports 0.2, Twitter 0.1, Wikipedia 0.01

Scholarly research of Wikipedia

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  1. Wikipedian and medicine
  2. Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia

Wikipedia partnerships

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  1. Wikipedian in Residence

Conflict of interest / paid editing

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Gibraltar case

Other proposals

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Here are some possible presentation prompts or titles. Each of these is a 1-hour presentation, and the format is always 15-20 minutes of lecture followed by audience questions and live demonstrations. All of these are suitable for people at any level of online media comfort and anyone can join any of them without joining any of the others. Other lectures in response to specific questions can be arranged with advance notice.

Wikipedia talks

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  1. Wikipedia: The Philosophy of the Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit
  2. Dispute Resolution on Wikipedia
  3. Writers, Researchers, Fact-Checkers, Editors, Moderators, and Mediators: User roles on Wikipedia
  4. Tour of the Wikipedia Web Site
  5. The Life of a Wikipedia Article from Creation to its Fate
  6. User reputation hierarchies on Wikipedia: what causes a Wikipedian to have credibility, and be held in esteem by their colleagues?
  7. Wikipedia's public controversies - when the outside world has had conflict with Wikipedia
  8. Wikipedia's internal social network - how do people use Wikipedia to meet like-minded others
  9. The difference between free speech and free kittens - Licensing and copyright on Wikipedia
  10. Faults of Wikipedia - What Wikipedia does poorly; a comparison of information platforms
  11. The Wikipedia community's outreach to the public: what Wikipedia does to support people outside the website
  12. How to teach someone else to begin editing Wikipedia, even if you do not know how to do it yourself
  13. 10 ways to ask a question about editing Wikipedia
  14. Characteristics of high-quality Wikipedia articles
  15. Conflict of Interest editing and Wikipedia's attacks on advertisers
  16. Articles for Deletion: The criteria for Inclusion in and Exclusion from Wikipedia
  17. Wiki Gnomes - the people who do odd, low-profile tasks which make everything else work
  18. "Experts are scum" - How Wikipedia operates without central leadership or respect for rank
  19. Wikipedia's place in the larger Open Movement
  20. Tour of Wikimedia projects which complement Wikipedia

New Media presentations

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  1. The Open Movement
  2. Committing to a platform - Calculating your investment and potential return with the major social media platforms
  3. Tour 10 social media websites in 10 Minutes. Warning! Mention of Facebook and Twitter prohibited.
  4. Calling all mid-career professionals! Be an Internet expert in a year in just an hour a week
  5. Get in and get out! Models for a one-day online social media campaign.
  6. Be savvy without doing homework - Speedy reviews of books and papers related to the Open Movement
  7. How copyright law became a popular coffeehouse discussion topic
  8. A Survey of Google's products
  9. Attitudes on online privacy among people who feel the need to be secure
  10. Before and Beyond the World Wide Web - a review of the Internet's protocols
  11. Who are Facebook's users? Hint - they do not know they use Facebook, and this talk is about surveillance
  12. Who's who in Defining the Internet - a consumer perspective
  13. Let's talk Internet money! Spending 17 Billion Dollars each, in 2014 the US Military and Facebook purchased 10 nuclear submarines and a chat app. Who bought which and why?
  14. Crazy future Internet predictions by seemingly smart people
  15. Get some kid to do it - The success of youth online

Tutorials for people at computers

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  1. Wikitext markup
  2. Setting up a watchlist
  3. Your profile page
  4. Meeting other users
  5. Uploading media
  6. Attracting attention to your work
  7. Conflict of interest
  8. Tracking metrics
  9. Connecting with the community
  10. Example workflows