is your knowledge on€¦ · 7.125 billion people in the world today 129,864,880 books in the world...
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Is your knowledge on
Wikipedia?Image by Lane Hartwell, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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Anasuya Senguptaand
Siko Bouterse
Co-founders and Coordinators
@WhoseKnowledgehttp://whoseknowledge.org/
Whose Knowledge? aims to correct the skewed
representations of knowledge on the internet.
Images by Seeeko, Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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What’s the current state of online knowledge?
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The numbers don’t add up...the internet is not (yet) for and from us all
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7.125 billion people in the world today129,864,880 books in the world
20 percent in the public domain 10 to 15 percent in print
...in 480 languages
7,500 languages in the world today
2,200 in Asia 260 in Europe
90% of the world’s languages will die in the next 100 years
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The sum of all knowledge(oral, visual, experiential…)
The sum of all printed knowledge
The sum of all online digitised knowledge
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Why Wikipedia?
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Wikipedia article: California Gold RushPage views
Viewed 94,000 times last monthSource: https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews
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Who is in charge of Wikipedia?
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(everybody and nobody)
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Volunteers
Image by JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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“Imagine a world in which every single human
being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.”
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Wikimedia projects
encyclopediadictionary,images,data,travel guide,quotes,library...
287 languages 15 projects
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How trustworthy is the information
on Wikipedia?
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2005 study in Nature found Wikipedia science articles were close to Encyclopædia Britannica in accuracy and errors. [1]
2008-2012 studies in medicine and science found Wikipedia's depth and coverage were of a high standard compared to professional and peer-reviewed sources. [2]
[1] Source: Giles, J. "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head", Nature, Volume 438, Issue 7070, pp. 900-901 (2005). [2] Source: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia for all studies
As good as other encyclopedias...
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70% of doctors lookup medical info on Wikipedia. [1]
Thousands of professors and students are using and improving Wikipedia in their classrooms. [2]
[1] Source: http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14/[2] See: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
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...but still lots of gaps and bias
Spanish Wikipedia - only 23% of biographies are women
English Wikipedia - only 15%
Indonesian Wikipedia - only 10%
Source: http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
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Whose Knowledge is missing?
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On Wikipedia, 20% of the world writes about 80% of the world.
Most of what is written about the global South is written by the global North.
9 out of 10 editors are men.
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How are marginalized communities responding?
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What are some of the obstacles
on Wikipedia?
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Neutral point of view
inform, don’t advocate
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Sources
reliable verifiable
secondary perspective
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Notabilitysignificant coverage in
reliable independent sources
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What are we doing about it? Whose Knowledge? collaborations
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How can we collaborate?Mapping knowledge - what’s missing?
Wikipedia content creation - what can be added?Sources - what else should exist online?
Anything else??
[email protected]@whoseknowledge.org