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Wikipedia is the cat’s meow for communication

Lane Rasberry

Consumer Reports

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Agenda

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  1. What is Wikipedia?
  2. Why should anyone care about Wikipedia?
  3. How does Wikipedia deliver information?

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How does Wikipedia work?

Wikipedia’s functions:

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Why are people going

to Wikipedia for information?

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225 million views per month

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Check any article's traffic! Click “View history”, then “Page View Statistics”!

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58,000 views in April 2015 make this one of Wikipedia’s most popular

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Same month - “metformin” more popular - among top 0.1% of articles by pageviews

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Wikipedia seems most popular...

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Who is tending this information?

Lots of people

watch Wikipedia’s

20,000 health articles.

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2,000 articles are

somewhat reviewed.

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Expert views are respected

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The reviews...

There are the eqivalent

of 15 paper pages

of comments for dengue

fever. For HIV/AIDS,

~400 pages of review.

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An example public health campaign

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  1. Publish education health messages
  2. Integrate messaging into Wikipedia
  3. Measure Wikipedia readership

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Simple English remixing?

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Translation goals

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Ask questions right meow.

Lane Rasberry, lane@bluerasberry.com