Biosphere Reserves and Wikipedia
John Cummings�Wikipedian in Residence at UNESCO��I help UNESCO and its programmes share knowledge on Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is created by 1000s of people working together to “bring about a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.”
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You and your communities have unique knowledge to share with the world
Wikipedia is where many people are looking for the information �you want to give them
1. Sharing your images on Wikipedia
Wiki Loves Earth
We created a competition specifically for Biosphere Reserves in partnership with Wikipedia
Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves
UNESCO reached 5.9 million people about the competition on social media
Wikipedia social media channels also promoted it�
Promotion
2700 photographs entered��All images in this presentation are from the competition
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Entries
The images created as part of the competition are viewed on over 20 different language Wikipedias over 600,000 times per month
Free for everyone to reuse
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Use on Wikipedia
Taking place in May or June 2017�Please take part and promote it to your communities and visitors
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Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves 2017
As well as participating in Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves you can upload your photos to Wikipedia at any time��I can help you with the technical parts
Images from the National Park Service in Denali Biosphere Reserves�receive 630,000 page views per month on Wikipedia
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Example: Denali Biosphere Reserve
2. Sharing your knowledge on Wikipedia
Wikipedia coverage of Biosphere Reserves
75% of Biosphere Reserves didn’t have articles on English language Wikipedia
Even fewer in other languages
80 new English Wikipedia articles created by volunteers
13,000 page views of these new Wikipedia pages per month
You can create the missing articles
3. A guide to Wikipedia for Biosphere Reserves
A guide to Wikipedia for Biosphere Reserves
bit.ly/wikiMAB
J.Cummings@unesco.org
Getting started