OFWA COURSE 101
What does OPEN mean to you?
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In your own words, express what open means to you.
Think of opportunities that exist. Think of the challenges that people face when accessing these opportunities. Open presents not only opportunities but access to those opportunities
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---Felix Nartey
A World without Open
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Picture this:�� Imagine traveling across continents without an airplane or ship!
Story of the First Airplane
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Existence of Open
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The Palm Wine Story
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Pay close attention to the following images:
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Imagine all these pictures and other resources that you would want to use in a work were copyrighted and not under a free/open license?
What is the Open Movement?
Open Movement is………..
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The open movement seeks to provide solutions to the world's problems pivoting on:
Categories of Open Resources
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Categories of Open Resources
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When we share, everybody wins.
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Exercise
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Quiz
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In your own words tell us what the open movement is?
What are the categories of open projects that exist?
What impacts has the open movement had on the world today?
Mention any open projects you are familiar with?
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Introduction to Wikimedia
Wikimedia, who they are & why they are here!
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What is Wikipedia?
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Wikipedia is a fact based collaborative website with the aim of gathering the sum of all available human knowledge and making it freely accessible to all.
History of Wikipedia
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Known Facts
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Number of languages covered: 300+
Number of words: 27 billion
Number of articles all together: 55 million+ (6 million+ in English Wikipedia)
Number of unique visitors: 1.7 billion monthly
It is currently ranked as the world’s largest reference website
Number of page views (per month): 239 Billion
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Vision of Wikipedia
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5 Pillars of Wikipedia
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Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute
Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility
Wikipedia has no firm rules
Perceptions about Wikipedia?
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Just in one sentence…��Wikipedia is an aggregator of information not a source.
Additional Resources
The birth of Wikipedia https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia
The history of Wikipedia in 2 minutes
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What Wikipedia is not
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Fun facts
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Knowing the GAPS that exists! (Gender et al)
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Distribution of the 55,015,180 articles in different language editions (as of 28 October 2020
Geographical Gap
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Contributing to Wikipedia
Ways to Contribute
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Contributions from specified fields or professions (photography, developer, etc.)
You can contribute in your local Language
As a classroom assignment
Improving the quality of articles by adding citations or sources
Proof reading and copy editing
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Importance of Contributing
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To document and preserve history, culture and heritage of a people or country (ultimately projecting and creating visibility for your tribe, ethnic group, community, region & Country)
Capacity building opportunity for the youth in writing, reading and research proficiency (advantage of learning how to write in an encyclopedic tone)
Document and preserve local language(s)
An opportunity to share your work and academic knowledge with the world
Helping to augment the biases that contribute to a colonized web
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Joining Wikipedia
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Exercise
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Mention any Wikimedia Foundation projects?
What are the 5 pillars of wikipedia?
Mention and explain any 3 items you can identify on the Wikipedia interface?
Mention some of the current gaps on Wikipedia?
What can you do to bridge some of these gaps?
What are the ways one can contribute to Wikipedia?
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Practice Session
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Thank you!