Jure Cuhalev

Wikimania 2008 was a blast. Here are just a few more bits of information that didn’t have a place in other posts.
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Cool projects
PediaPress is a project that allows you to turn Wikipedia pages into actual books. They have an open-source MediaWiki extension, so you can run this on your own wiki. The coolest [...]

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What is Wikimedia Commons:
 

Central resource for Wikimedia
Wiki – anyone can edit, be bold, etc.
Media – it’s not text, it’s especially images
Multilingual – all the languages inside the single wiki
Free Content – all the files are availalbe under Free Licenses
Community – lots of people who consider this their “wiki home”

 
It’s a rapidly growing project [...]

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What is political participation:
 

Collaborate for a common constructive objective
Practice and defend freedom of speech
Freely meet and engage with people and causes
Discuss in order to obtain census
Engage in non-economic initiatives
Consume with responsibility
Watch the watchers
[and much more..]

 
Voting from time to time is also a form of political participation.
 
What’s the political participation with [...]

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Wikipedia, 10million articles and lots of articles. Isn’t that enough, so why would we need other wiki’s?
 
Wikipedia is not a lot of heap of things – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT
 
So what do you do with these things?
 
Wikimedia has educational goal. There is another company Wikia, that runs these specialized wiki’s.
 
Variation of popularity [...]

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Wikinews is:
 

Easy
A type of document you see every day
Goal of NPOV and professionalism
Balance through diversity
The option to do news briefs

 
Writing your first articles
First start with a synthesis article.  You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story in your own words. It’s important to attributes quotes and [...]