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维基百科,自由的百科全书

香港政府资讯科技总监办公室(OGCIO)将于2006年4月28日(星期五)举行一个有关Web 2.0的研讨会,邀请香港维基人去作一场有关Wiki及维基百科的演讲,对象为香港政府人员。现在希望大家可以一起建立起演讲的内容,显示Wiki的力量 :)

演讲安排

  • 地点:Information Technology Solution Centre (ITSC), 5/F, Cyberport 1
  • 日期:2006年4月28日
  • 时间:15:20 - 15:55 (UTC+8)(35分钟)
  • 题目:Wiki - Wikipedia in HK
  • 语言:英语
  • /规则
  • /日程

演讲内容


Wiki - Wikipedia in HK


Contents

  • What is Wiki?
  • Wikipedia
  • Uses of Wiki

What is Wiki?


  • wiki wiki - Hawaiian for quick
  • A website that allows its users to edit its contents quickly and easily
    • Looks like an ordinary webpage
    • Except that it can be edited

  • WikiWikiWeb – the first wiki
    • Created by Ward Cunningham in 1994

Key Features of Wiki

  1. Easy to use
  2. Easy to edit
  3. Easy to monitor

  • Easy to use
    • Requires only a computer, an Internet connection and a web browser
    • Pages are highly interconnected

  • Easy to edit
    • Editing within a browser
    • Simple markup language
      • e.g. Linking: CamelCase or [[free linking]]
    • WYSIWYG
      • e.g. MoinMoin wiki engine

  • Easy to monitor
    • Page history, edit log, version comparison
    • Every change is reversible
    • Collaborative in nature

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Linus's law


Wikipedia

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia


  • Wiki + encyclopedia = Wikipedia
  • Open content encyclopedia
    • GNU Free Documentation License
  • Contributed by volunteers
  • MediaWiki engine

Wikipedia Growth

  • Founded on January 15, 2001
  • More than 3,800,000 articles in more than 200 languages
  • Over 1,000,000 English articles

Spirits of Wikipedia

  • Free
    • Free as in beer and free as in freedom
  • Open
    • Everyone can be an editor
  • Neutral
    • Views are represented fairly and w/o bias
  • Collaboration
    • Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something

Chinese Wikipedia

  • Started on October, 2002
  • Contributors from Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese speakers worldwide
  • Currently has more than 60,000 articles
  • Notable feature: Traditional ←→ Simplified Chinese automatic conversion

Wikipedia in Hong Kong

  • Active Hong Kong wikipedians community
  • Featured articles: MTR, Octopus card...
  • Prof. Andrew Lih of HKU is the first to use Wikipedia in the university setting for instruction

Uses of Wiki


Common Wiki Engines


Choosing a Wiki

  • Software requirement
  • Wiki markup syntax and richness
  • Access control, user management
  • Language support, internationalization
  • Customization

Uses of Wiki within an Organization

  1. Reference site
  2. Knowledge base
    • for internal/external support
  3. Documentation and planning for projects
  4. Sharing of information
  5. Platform for discussion

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