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Biosphere Reserves and Wikipedia

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John Cummings�Wikipedian in Residence at UNESCO��I help UNESCO and its programmes share knowledge on Wikipedia

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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.”

  • It receives 15 billion page views per month
  • Available in 285 languages

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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

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  1. Sharing your images on Wikipedia
  2. Sharing your knowledge on Wikipedia
  3. A guide to Wikipedia for Biosphere Reserves

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1. Sharing your images on Wikipedia

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Wiki Loves Earth

  • The second largest photo competition in the world
  • 280,000 images created over the last 4 years
  • Ran in 26 countries in 2016
  • All images available under Open Access meaning everyone can use them

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We created a competition specifically for Biosphere Reserves in partnership with Wikipedia

Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves

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UNESCO reached 5.9 million people about the competition on social media

Wikipedia social media channels also promoted it�

Promotion

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2700 photographs entered��All images in this presentation are from the competition

Entries

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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

Use on Wikipedia

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Taking place in May or June 2017�Please take part and promote it to your communities and visitors

Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves 2017

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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

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Images from the National Park Service in Denali Biosphere Reserves�receive 630,000 page views per month on Wikipedia

Example: Denali Biosphere Reserve

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2. Sharing your knowledge on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia coverage of Biosphere Reserves

75% of Biosphere Reserves didn’t have articles on English language Wikipedia

Even fewer in other languages

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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

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3. A guide to Wikipedia for Biosphere Reserves

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A guide to Wikipedia for Biosphere Reserves

  • Explanation of what Wikipedia is
  • Taking part in Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves
  • How to create and expand a Wikipedia article for your Biosphere Reserve
  • Writing about any subject on Wikipedia
  • Sharing your images on Wikipedia
  • Reusing images from Wikipedia

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bit.ly/wikiMAB

J.Cummings@unesco.org

Getting started

  • I can help you
  • Local Wikipedia organisations can help you