Fordham University
Wikipedia Editathon
Lane Rasberry
Wikipedian in Residence
at Consumer Reports
lrasberry@consumer.org
Happy 175th Anniverary Fordham, and
Happy Open Access Week
How to
Anyone can edit
Most important rule:
Sentence + citation
Anyone can discuss
Anyone can see what anyone else has done
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Agenda
Care about Wikipedia because people read Wikipedia
In Summary
In Summary
Alexa rankings, Oct 2016
Popular + noncommercial
5. Wikipedia
99. BBC.com
105. BBC.co.uk
137. Pirate Bay
192. Mozilla
227. Internet Archive
234. NIH.gov
423. US Post Service
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia which anyone can edit
“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.” - Jimbo
Encyclopedia...
5 million articles
80,000 editors
80+ languages
English Wikipedia 2016
Wikipedia + open access
Non-text open access media
Let’s edit Wikipedia
Anyone can edit
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White
Is the color of milk and fresh snow, the color produced by the combination of all the colors of the visible spectrum.
Black
Is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It is the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light.
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Yellow
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.
Blue
Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.
Red
Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.
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Gray
White
Black
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| A | B | C |
Yellow | 10 | 20 | 7 |
Blue | 30 | 15 | 10 |
Orange | 5 | 24 | 16 |
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Yellow
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.
Blue
Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.
Red
Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.
Yellow
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and orange.
Blue
Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum.
Red
Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.
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